The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619493535 ISBN 13: 9781619493537

Publisher: Empire Books, 2012

Synopsis

The only novel Poe ever completed, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket tells of the story of Gordon Pym, a sailor whose misadventures take him across the globe. Experiencing mutiny, shipwreck, and even cannibalism, Pym’s outrageous adventures find him as far as the South Pole. While Poe felt his novel was silly in many respects, it remains notable for serving as inspiration to Melville and Verne for Moby Dick and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, respectively.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Empire Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1619493535
• ISBN 13: 9781619493537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186