The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
and Related Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role or posing as ghost-writer of early portions or the narrative; Pym—his only novel—has become the key text for our understanding of Poe.
This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes—fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials—or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers. --back cover
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horror, short stories, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, young men, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Nantucket island (mass.), fiction, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Young men, Young men--massachusetts--nantucket island--fiction, Horror tales, american, Ps2618 .n3 2008| Edition | Availability |
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The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and related tales
2008, Oxford University Press
in English
0199540470 9780199540471
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: and Related Tales
1998, Oxford University Press
Paperback
in English
- Oxford World's Classics paperback reissue (6)
0199209782 9780199209781
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Related Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
September 11, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0192837710 9780192837714
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: and Related Tales
1994, Oxford University Press
Paperback
in English
- printing (1)
0192828444 9780192828446
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Balloon Hoax
Descent into the Maelstrom
How to Write a Blackwood Article
Loss of Breath
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Mystification
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
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