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A Descent into the Maelstrom

Edgar Allan Poe

2004
Mountaineering Ratiocination Embedded Narrative

"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer 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.

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