| The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Contributor(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (Author), Meyers, Jeffrey (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375760075 ISBN-13: 9780375760075 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Sea Stories - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001057938 |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.2" W x 8.05" (0.39 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |