The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Narrative of Arthur 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. But the plot also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative...
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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 man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But the plot also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, and then leaves the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781612192222 (161219222X)
Publish date: August 13th 2013
Publisher: Melville House
Pages no: 235
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Horror,
Gothic
In the only full length novel that Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote, he tells a tale set at sea of Arthur Gordon Pym. He sails around the globe, and during his misadventures at sea, he experiences a mutiny on board, a terrible storm resulting in a shipwreck, and a run-in with a tribe of cannibals. In orde...
Poe's only novel, this is a unique mix of seafaring adventures & misadventures (many to the point of horror), travel narrative/diary with the sort of flora/fauna/navigational notations that were popular on exploration trips of the day, fantastical locations/peoples/creatures, allegory, allusions, & ...
Tan acostumbrados al sombrío mundo en sus cuentos, en su única novela, Poe nos invade del horror más blanquecino. Con un desenlace que da otra vuelta de tuerca a la novela de aventuras y que, en mi opinión, es uno de los mejores que he leído.Editado 25/02/13:Leyendo un ensayo de Borges sobre Poe, he...
Dear Mr. Poe,Let me start by saying that you are my very favorite author (like EVAH). I must have looked like Wednesday Adams, all crawled up in the corner with one of your stories while other kids read My Little Pony. I own multiple copies of you works, managing to convince myself I need yet anothe...
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