Video

Excerpt from E.A. Poe's Story of a Sea Voyage Gone Wrong

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Description

A reading by Lynn Cullivan from E.A. Poe's short story "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" (1841), where a man tells a story of fantastical events at sea. Published in many versions including Great stories of the sea and ships (1992), http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=27236, a complete publication history of the story is available here: http://www.eapoe.org/works/info/pt032.htm

Duration

49 seconds

Credit

NPS

Date Created

10/21/2014

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