The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe
Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure, so he stows away on a whaling ship. But he gets more excitement soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. The nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It seems they are being punished for their sins.
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet, a master of the horror tale, credited with practically inventing the detective story. Poe's first collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) contained one of his most famous works, "The Fall of the House of Usher." During the early 1840s Poe's best-selling work was The Conchologist's First Book (1839). The dark poem of lost love, "The Raven," brought Poe national fame, when it appeared in 1845. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and "The Purloined Letter" are among Poe's most famous detective stories.
General Fields
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.19
- : 26 January 2006
- : 181mm X 114mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Edgar Allan Poe
- : Paperback
- : 813.3
- : 256