The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Subjects: Whaling ships--Fiction; Young men--Fiction; Stowaways--Fiction; Mutiny--Fiction; Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction
Description: <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> is famed for his unsettling <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction">short stories</a>, but he also wrote a full-length novel, his only one: <i>The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket</i>. Framed as the recollections of an adventurous stowaway, <i>Pym</i> begins as a swashbuckling adventure novel, and after growing increasingly weirder, ends on a surreal note worthy of the best of Poe’s short stories.</p>
			<p>Despite Poe himself calling it a “a very silly book,” <i>Pym</i> went on to become one of his most-translated and influential works, coloring the themes of future adventure and weird fiction writers like <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne">Jules Verne</a> and <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-p-lovecraft"><abbr>H. P.</abbr> Lovecraft</a>. It continues to influence writers to this day.</p>