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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
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Description for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Paperback. Editor(s): Kennedy, J. Gerald. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 238.
And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. 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 ... Read more
And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540471
SKU
V9780199540471
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About Edgar Allan Poe
Gerald J. Kennedy is Professor at Louisiana State University. He is the author of
Reviews for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
'a fine introduction to a fascinating writer' The Observer