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    MS. Found In A Bottle
    MS. Found In A Bottle
    MS. Found In A Bottle
    Audiobook29 minutes

    MS. Found In A Bottle

    Written by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    MS. Found In A Bottle is an adventure short story by Edgar Allan Poe that first appeared in the May 1833 edition of Baltimore Saturday Visiter. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateSep 27, 2022
    ISBN9781593166076
    MS. Found In A Bottle
    Author

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

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    • 2/5
      Not really sure about this one, seemed too much for my taste simply a retelling of Decent In A Maelstrom {which I thought was much better}
    • 3/5
      More in the line of Poe's classic dark tales, this tale of a shipboard voyage to Hell is a page turner from beginning to end. His descriptions are lurid & have a nightmarish quality about them.