{"product_id":"book-279c","title":"The Spectacles","description":"\"The Spectacles\" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in March 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Buonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to \"Simpson\" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, \"resolutely refused to employ them\". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles.","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67381275558192,"sku":"BD279c","price":1.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-279c","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}