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July 08, 2006: This is a Poe masterpiece. This is a classic of American literature. Melville even plagiarized parts of it as well as Mocha Dick by Jeremiah Reynolds. This is Edgar Allan Poe at his best. There is psychological terror here as one person is literally frightened to death. And the cannibalism scene is horrific. Near the end, the novel morphs into science fiction as Poe pushes the envelope as few writers have, before or since. You will not be disappointed. This is Poe...
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you. Poe’s only complete novel that recounts the story of young Pym, a stowaway aboard a whaling ship. His various hair-raising escapades...
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The wind, as I before said, blew freshly from the southwest. The night was very clear and cold. Augustus had taken the helm, and I stationed myself by the mast, on the deck of the cuddy. We flew along at a great rate-neither of us having said a word since casting loose from the wharf. I now asked my companion what course he intended to steer, and what time he thought it probable we should get back. He whistled for a few minutes, and then said crustily, "I am going to sea-you may go home if you think...
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Easyread Large Edition) (Unabridged) (Compact Disc)
Description Basing it on a newspaper account of a shipwreck, Poe wrote this sea novel in 1837. The story of a young stowaway on a whaling ship, it was an important influence on the work of Melville and Verne. This volume also includes other short stories set in a maritime atmosphere.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Poe's only novel and his "greatest work" (Jorge Luis Borges). Reading a newspaper account in 1836 of a shipwreck and subsequent rescue of two men on board, Edgar Allan Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket --his classic gothic sea novel. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two...
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Related Tales (Oxford World's Classics Series) (Paperback)
Genre: Romance. Subgenre: Gothic. Date Published: August 01, 2008. Release Date: August 01, 2008. Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr. Pages: 301. Format: Paperback.
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A stowaway aboard the whaling ship Grampus, Arthur Gordon Pym finds himself bound on an extraordinary voyage to the high southern latitudes. Poe's remarkable novel recounts the "incredible adventures and discoveries" of Pym and his companions. There is mutiny, appalling butchery, and the "exquisite horror" of cannibalism; premature burial within an impenetrable sea borne labyrinth; a corpse-ridden ghost ship, gigantic polar bears, and uncharted islands peopled by barbarian hordes. It was Poe's unique...
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Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is an archetypal American story of escape from domesticity tracing a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. Included are eight related tales which further illuminate Pym by their treatment of persistent themes--fantastic voyages, gigantic...
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Description Basing it on a newspaper account of a shipwreck, Poe wrote this sea novel in 1837. The story of a young stowaway on a whaling ship, it was an important influence on the work of Melville and Verne. This volume also includes other short stories set in a maritime atmosphere.
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Poe's parents were traveling actors who died when he was a small child, leaving three children: one died, one eventually became insane, and the other grew up to be Edgar Allan Poe, one of America's great writers and the father of the modern detective story. He was raised (though never legally adopted) by a merchant named John Allan and spent part of his growing-up years in England. He attended the University of Virginia, but was expelled for not paying his gambling debts, as a result of which Allan...
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Dodo Press)
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From the author who introduced readers to chilling tales of murder comes a novella based on factual accounts of a haunting, mutinous high-seas adventure. What begins with a young Nantucket man stowing away on a New Bedford whaler ends with 2 survivors drifting toward the South Pole in an open boat.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is an archetypal American story of escape from domesticity tracing a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. Included are eight related tales which further illuminate Pym by their treatment of persistent themes--fantastic voyages, gigantic...
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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...
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During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's "Swiss Family Robinson" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." "Arthur Gordon Pym" (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing. Verne acknowledged this debt in his only major piece of literary criticism...
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young mans 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. Pymhis only novelhas become the key text for our understanding of Poe.
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Edgar Allan Poe (Selected Tales with the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym) (Paperback)
Edgar Allan Poe (Selected Tales with the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym) (Paperback) Products and Promotions
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is a realistic yet romantic nautical adventure about a young stowaway on the high seas. One day in 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym escapes his dreary life in New Bedford and hides on the Grampus , where he befriends the captain's son, Augustus. The 2 boys witness and participate in a dazzling series of adventures, including shipwreck, famine, rescue, and voyages all over the world. Poe's incredible sense of detail and impeccable accuracy greatly influenced...
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Used - The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: A Dialogue with Unreason traces the complex, scattered criticism of Poe's most anomalous work, as it has steadily grown in prominence in a central position in the study of Poe and American literature. The winding route the criticism of Pyro has charted, as convoluted as the narrative itself, has been a history of disagreement at almost every level at which critics and scholars read texts -- including the nature
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Pym brings together two classic novels: first, Edgar Allan Poe''s polar adventure, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and then Jules Verne''s sequel, An Antarctic Mystery. These stories are part nautical adventure, and part "lost race" mystery. (The original sketched figures are included in Poe''s novel, which are missing from some recent reprints.)
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"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," the only full-length novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote, is the story of a boy, Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship. Along with Augustus, the captain's son, Arthur Gordon Pym avoids discover aboard the ship while witnessing a series of incredible events. Rich with symbolism and allegory, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" is an exciting gothic sea adventure that greatly influenced the genre of the maritime novel.
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