num_pages: 199
description: Subtitle: Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. With an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivors; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British schooner Jane Guy; the brief capture and the massacre of her crew among the group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise.A stowaway aboard the whaling ship Grampus, Arthur Gordon Pym finds himself bound on an extraordinary voyage to the high southern latitudes. Poes novel recounts the incredible adventures and discoveries of Pym and his companions. There is mutiny, appalling butchery, and the exquisite horror of cannibalism premature burial within an impenetrable seaborne labyrinth a corpse-ridden ghost ship, gigantic polar bears, and uncharted islands peopled by barbarian hordes.
language: English
title: The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
titlecomplete: The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
genres: Fiction, American, Adventure, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Fantasy
ratings_count: 11681
publisher: Coppens & Frenks Pubs