Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Modern Library) (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Edgar Allan Poe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375760075 ISBN 13: 9780375760075

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader. 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

About this title

Review:

"It is Poe's greatest work." --Jorge Luis Borges

Synopsis:

Poe's only book-length narrative, recounting his Nantucket-born hero's adventures, misadventures, and discoveries, and his survival of shipwreck and capture by cannibals, as he journeys toward the South Pole.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375760075
• ISBN 13: 9780375760075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224