Engage with the timeless themes of Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel, beautifully captured in the Smith & Taylor Classics series.
“My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
In his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), Edgar Allan Poe carries his knack for the mysterious and macabre, spilt blood and cryptic messages onto the South Seas. Aboard a whaling ship, stowaway Pym will endure starvation, cannibalism, whirlpools, mad dogs and premature burials on a journey toward the frozen expanse of Antarctica.
Published the year full emancipation was legalized by the UK’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Arthur Gordon Pym captures the relentless anxiety and violence of pre-Civil War American expansion. Allegorical, tragic, and based on real events, this adventure story went on to inspire many authors from Herman Melville and Jules Verne, to H.G. Wells and Vladmir Nabokov. This edition also includes accompanying selected letters, essays, and criticism from Poe himself.
Featuring a conversational afterword from writers Nathan Wolff and Joseph Rezek.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Smith & Taylor Classics
Published: 07/22/2025
Series: Smith & Taylor Classics #8
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781961884489
Language: English
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