A Descent Into the Maelstrom
- ISBN-10
- 1545304289
- ISBN-13
- 9781545304280
- Series
- A Descent into the Maelström
- Pages
- 26
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-04-10
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe
Description
A Descent into the Maelstr�m" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction.Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old-"You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." e
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- 2018-08-10
- 26 pages
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