The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1548298778 ISBN 13: 9781548298777

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Edgar Allen Poe's classic novel about the nautical adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery--even death. As Jeffrey Meyers writes in his Introduction: "[Poe] remains contemporary because he appeals to basic human feelings and expresses universal themes common to all men in all languages: dreams, love, loss; grief, mourning, alienation; terror, revenge, murder; insanity, disease, and death." Within the pages of this novel, we encounter nearly all of them.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the text of the original 1838 American edition.

From the Back Cover

“It is Poe’s greatest work.”—Jorge Luis Borges

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1548298778
• ISBN 13: 9781548298777
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 85