The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket...
By: Introd. [by] Sidney Kaplan.
Series: American century series,; AC29
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Young men -- Fiction; Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction
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. Because Pym encounters dangerous mysterious sea creatures and strange exotic animals, the novel has the characteristics of science fiction stories as well as adventure and horror tales.