The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket : comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board of the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivors, their shipwreck, and subsequent horrible sufferings, from famine, their deliverance by means of the British Schooner Jane Guy, the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Antarctic Ocean, her capture, and of the massacre of her crew, among a group of islands in the 84th parallel of the southern latitude, together with incredible adventures and discoveries still further south, to which that distressing calamity gave rise /
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, canni...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
[1960]
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| Series: | American century series ;
AC29. |
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Main Collection - Walker Library - 2nd Floor
| Call Number: |
PS2618 .N3 1960
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| Copy 1 | Available Pull and Hold |
