A Descent into the Maelström

by Edgar Allan Poe

A frail old fisherman, perched high atop a Norwegian mountain, recounts the harrowing, life-altering experience of a fateful fishing trip. When a mysterious and colossal maelström envelops their boat, one brother is swallowed by the sea, another is driven to insanity, and the narrator is aged beyond his earthly years by the sheer terror. Facing certain doom, he finds a sliver of salvation in the depths of the rotating vortex, using observation, scientific logic, and daring to find order inside t

ISBN: 9781473388024

30 pages

Published: 2013-04-26

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