![]() ![]() The story was later renamed 'The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall'. 'Hans Phaall - A Tale' was first published in 1835, when Edgar Allan Poe was twenty-five years old and virtually unknown. ![]() The messenger arrives in Rotterdam and causes great excitement and confusion among the level-headed burghers. In that letter Hans Phaall offers information about the moon and its inhabitants in exchange for forgiveness for his crime. Hans Phaall pines for a return to his planet and sends one of the moon-dwellers to Rotterdam with a letter for burgomaster Superbus Von Underduk. When the bellows-mender finally lands on the moon he finds a city inhabited by ugly little people. The perilous balloon flight lasts nineteen days and is reported in great detail. As soon as the contraption is ready to take off, Hans Phaall gives his creditors the slip and kills them in an explosion. On the night of 1st April he tricks his creditors into helping him to inflate the balloon. He constructs a balloon that will carry him all the way to the moon. Hans Phaall, a bankrupt bellows-mender from Rotterdam, thinks up an ingenious scheme to get rid of his creditors and to escape from his dreary existence. ![]()
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