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A Descent into the Maelstrom

Edgar Allan Poe · 1841 · Scanned text

523,900 words · about 36 h 41 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Language
English
Published
1841
Length
523,900 words · about 36 h 41 min
Sections
35 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain · PD-US by publication date

 

Contents (35)
  1. Front matter about 1 h 7 min
  2. Part II about 4 h 34 min
  3. Preface To The Raven And Other Poems about 2 h 14 min
  4. Preface about 9 h 3 min
  5. II about 4 min
  6. III about 4 min
  7. IV. The gardens of a Palace-Moonlight about 4 h 23 min
  8. V under 1 min
  9. VI about 3 h 26 min
  10. Introduction about 1 h 11 min
  11. Chapter I about 16 min
  12. Chapter II about 24 min
  13. Chapter III about 14 min
  14. Chapter IV about 12 min
  15. Chapter V about 12 min
  16. Chapter VI about 14 min
  17. Chapter VII about 11 min
  18. Chapter VIII about 14 min
  19. Chapter IX about 13 min
  20. Chapter X about 8 min
  21. Chapter XI about 11 min
  22. Chapter XII about 14 min
  23. Chapter XIII about 17 min
  24. Chapter XIV about 13 min
  25. Chapter XV about 7 min
  26. Chapter XVI about 8 min
  27. Chapter XVII about 8 min
  28. Chapter XVIII about 11 min
  29. Chapter XIX about 8 min
  30. Chapter XX about 10 min
  31. Chapter XXI about 7 min
  32. Chapter XXII about 10 min
  33. Chapter XXIII about 8 min
  34. Chapter XXIV about 11 min
  35. Chapter XXV about 5 h 52 min
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Front matter

A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. Joseph Glanville.

WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag. For some minutes the old man seemed too much exhausted to speak.

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