MS. Found in a Bottle

story by Poe
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MS. Found in a Bottle, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in the Baltimore weekly Saturday Visiter (October 1833) as the winner of a contest held by the magazine. The story, one of Poe’s first notable works, was later published in the two-volume Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840). The story’s narrator, whose journal entries initially reveal him to be a staunch rationalist, begins to accept supernaturalism when a hurricane throws him from his sinking boat onto a large mystical ship. The crew, made up of extremely aged foreigners who busy themselves with ancient nautical instruments, are oblivious ...(100 of 123 words)