Dec 30, 2009

A Descent into the Maelström | A Descent into the Maelström

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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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A Descent into the Maelström | A Descent into the Maelström

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