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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. The narrator relates the details of the event and the effects it had on his guide, who witnessed it from a mountain top.
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.
Jun 24, 2022 · ''A Descent into the Maelstrom'' is a story of fear and terror written by Edgar Allan Poe. In this piece, the narrator and his guide ascend a high peak on the coast of Norway,...
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Oct 19, 2023 · “The Vision at the Brink of the Abyss: ‘A Descent into the Maelstrom’ in the Light of Poe's Cosmology,” Georgia Review (1973), 27:356-366. Frank, Frederick S., “The Aqua-Gothic Voyage of ‘A Descent into the Maelstrom’,” American Transcendentalist Quarterly (1976), 29:85-93.
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 is the story’s...
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.
