The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / by Edgar Allan Poe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.

Contributor:

Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction.

Nantucket Island (Mass.).

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Whaling--Fiction.

Whaling.

Stowaways--Fiction.

Stowaways.

American fiction--19th century.

American fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xxv, 157 pages illustrations 28 cm

Edition:

Trade edition.

Other Title:

Arthur Gordon Pym

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : David R. Godine, [1973]

Summary:

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole.

Notes:

"This edition copyright 1973 by David R. Godine."

Introduction by Richard Wilbur.

"The chilling drawings by Gerry Hoover were commissioned especially for this edition."--Cover.

"This book was printed in an edition of 3000 copies at the Crimson Printing Company. The type is Linotype Janson. All copies were printed on Warren's Old Style Wove. Trade copies were bound by Robert Burlen & Son. One hundred and fifty deluxe copies were bound by Arno Werner."

ISBN:

0879230622

0879231475

OCLC:

865327