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"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer 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.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- 1841
A story of a man who survived a terrifying ordeal in a whirlpool off the Norwegian coast. Read the full text of this classic tale of horror and suspense, published in 1845.
A short story about a man who survives a near-death experience in a whirlpool and loses his hair and his watch. The maelstrom is a symbol of nature, time, and God's power, and the story explores the themes of terror, curiosity, and fate.
May 21, 2012 · A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM. [C] The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus.
Oct 19, 2023 · “A Descent into the Maelström” — February 1853 — Anglo-American Magazine (Toronto, published by Thomas Maclear, later Maclear and Co.) (volume II, no. 2, 2:196-202)
Mar 5, 2012 · A Descent into the Maelstrom. by. Edgar Allan Poe. Usage. Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0. Topics. Edgar Allan Poe, Poe, The Electronic Books Foundation. Collection. opensource.
A Norwegian fisherman tells a tourist how he was caught during a storm in a maelström three years earlier and how he survived his ordeal. The tourist...
