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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Misc)

Series: Misc
Genre: Horror
ISBN: 0486440931
Pages: 176 pages
Publisher: Dover Thrift Edition
Price: 3.00
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

Description: From the author who introduced readers to chilling tales of murder comes a novella based on factual accounts of a haunting, mutinous high-seas adventure. What begins with a young Nantucket man stowing away on a New Bedford whaler ends with two survivors drifting toward the South Pole in an open boat. An engrossing tale to be enjoyed by admirers of Poe and maritime enthusiasts alike.

Poe's only novel, albeit relatively short by today's standards. Jules Verne wrote a sequel to this work, after Poe's death, entitled The Sphinx of the Ice Fields. In turn, this work in particular influenced the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, notably his novella At the Mountains of Madness, and it's myriad progeny.