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A Descent into the Maelstrom (annotated)

A Descent into the Maelstrom (annotated)

Poe, Edgar Allan

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1523609079
ISBN13: 9781523609079
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A Descent into the Maelström is an 1841 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. The story's opening bears a similarity to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798): in both, an excited old man tells his story of shipwreck and survival. The tale is one of sensation, emphasizing the narrator's thoughts and feelings, especially his terror of being killed in the whirlpool. The narrator uses his reasoning skills to survive and the story is considered one of Poe's early examples of science fiction.

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