The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, is Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel. Pym, a young man hungry for the sea, stows away aboard the whaling brig Grampus with the help of his friend Augustus, and is trapped below decks as a mutiny breaks out above him. What follows is a chain of disasters, told in the sober tone of a real voyage narrative: bloodshed, shipwreck, famine and rescue, then a southward cruise into Antarctic waters where the sea grows warm and the islands strange. Poe blends documentary detail with horror and leaves the reader with an ending that has puzzled and inspired writers ever since. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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