A Descent into the Maelström

"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Its narrator recounts surviving a shipwreck and a whirlpool. The story has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and has also been labeled an early form of science fiction.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Published: 1841
Subject: A man's survival of a shipwreck and whirlpool

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Article: A Descent into the Maelström (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q1658772
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Illustration: By Harry Clarke. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Harry Clarke, From Edgar Allan Poe ([1919]), “A Descent into the Maelström”, in Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 39–41 Parker St. Kingsway W.C.; New York, N.Y.: Brentano’s Publishers: Fifth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, OCLC 9270550, plate between pages 96 and 97 .
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