A Descent into the Maelström (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- First Published: 1841
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: The early nineteenth century
- Setting: Northern Norway
- Principal Characters: The narrator, The fisherman
- Genres: Short fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Nature, Death or dying, Storms, Ships, Fishing or fishermen
- Locales: Norway
The Story
A Norwegian fisherman tells a tourist how he was caught during a storm in a maelström three years earlier and how he survived his ordeal. The tourist is the story's narrator, and he speaks as a reporter who has met an interesting character while traveling in Norway. The story opens with the description of their arrival at a fifteen-hundred-foot cliff on Helseggen mountain, from which the pair may observe the maelström to the south. Though the fisherman seems old and weak, he is rather comfortable on this narrow and windy cliff, where the narrator is unwilling to...
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