The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and related tales / Edgar Allan Poe ; edited with an introduction and notes by J. Gerald Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.

Contributor:

Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 301 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for our understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Contains:

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191921650

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