Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales, the (1994) [Collection]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Summary
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is an archetypical 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.
Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy.
Original title: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Adventure→ Military and Naval Adventure
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor
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Loss of Breath (1832) [Short Story]
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MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) [Short Story]
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Mystification (1837) [Short Story]
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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the (1838) [Novel]
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How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838) [Short Story]
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Descent into the Maelström, a (1841) [Short Story]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Pit and the Pendulum, the (1842) [Short Story]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Balloon-Hoax, the (1844) [Short Story]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Premature Burial, the (1844) [Short Story]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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