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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 .
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.
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 DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM. 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. —Joseph Glanville.
May 21, 2012 · A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM. This story, first published in Graham's Magazine for May 1841, is deservedly one of the most popular of Poe's tales.
Oct 19, 2023 · “A Descent into the Maelström” — August 29, 1846 — The Railway Bell and London Advertiser (London, UK), p. 2 (Information for this entry was sent to the Poe Society by Ton Fafinaie in an e-mail dated November 13, 2021)
