The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

von Edgar Allan Poe

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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, loss; grief, mourning, alienation; terror, revenge, murder; insanity, disease, and death.” Within the pages of this novel, we encounter nearly all of them.This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the text of the original 1838 American edition.

• Reihe: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
• ISBN: 9780375760075
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2002
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Random House