The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375760075)

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.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN-10: 0375760075
ISBN-13: 9780375760075
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.20w x 0.52d