The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe

Category: Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Classics Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Sea Adventures

Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read by Peter Noble
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth.

This rousing sea adventure follows New England boy Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain’s son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov.