‘MS. Found in a Bottle’ is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an ‘MS.’, or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.
An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed then hit by a simoom (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard. Driven southward by the magical simoom towards the South Pole, the narrator’s ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon, and only the narrator manages to scramble aboard.
An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed then hit by a simoom (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard. Driven southward by the magical simoom towards the South Pole, the narrator’s ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon, and only the narrator manages to scramble aboard.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 150 ● ISBN 9782291033615 ● File size 0.1 MB ● Publisher WS ● City Dubai ● Country AE ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9340696 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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