The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Modern Library Classics)

Poe, Edgar Allan; Meyers, Jeffrey [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 0375760075 / ISBN 13: 9780375760075

Published by Modern Library, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Modern Library Classics)
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375760075
• ISBN 13: 9780375760075
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jeffrey Meyers, a distinguished biographer, is the author of Edgar Allan Poe, D. H. Lawrence, and Joseph Conrad, among others. He lives in Berkeley, California.