A Descent into the Maelström (Unabridged)

A Descent into the Maelström (Unabridged)

Title: A Descent into the Maelström (Unabridged)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Release: 2020-09-22
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
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A Descent into the Maelström (Unabr Edgar Allan Poe
"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. 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." The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then told of the "old" man's fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago.

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