The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Subtitle: and Related Tales
Edition: Oxford World's Classics paperback reissue (6)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780199209781
Copyright date: 1994
Description: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by J. Gerald Kennedy

'And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact.'

The Narrative ofArthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Pym—his only novel—has become the key text for our understanding of Poe.

This edition offers eight additional tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes and by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.

• INTRODUCTION • TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY • CHRONOLOGY • EXPLANATORY NOTES
Notes: USA
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the Text; title: Select Bibliography; title: A Chronoloo of Edgar Allan Poe; title: THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET; title: MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE; title: LOSS OF BREATH; title: MYSTIFICATION; title: HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE; title: A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM; title: THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM; title: THE BALLOON HOAX; title: THE PREMATURE BURIAL; title: Explanatory Notes