num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
titlecomplete: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Modern Library Classics)
genres: Fiction, American, Adventure, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Fantasy
ratings_count: 11681
publisher: Modern Library