A Descent Into The Maelstrom

A Descent into the Maelstr?m" is a 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." e

• • Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Yasmira Cedeno
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Apr 10, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 26 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1545304289
• • ISBN-13: 9781545304280