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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole. Best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is also credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. His imaginative and dark storytelling left a profound legacy, influencing authors globally and helping to shape modern horror, psychological fiction, and mystery genres.

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****The only full-length novel of Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is a tale that is as strange as it is adventurous, as comical as it is horrifying, and just about as Poe as it gets.

Initially intended to be a realistic tale, the adventure of the titular Arthur, a stowaway aboard the whaling ship Grampus, is always turning stranger and harder to define, Poe’s powerful imagination leaking into the cracked hull of the narrative and flooding it slowly with enigmatic characters and nightmarish situations. The ship is beset by mutineers, only to be smashed apart by a storm. While clinging to life amongst the driftwood, a ship crewed by corpses passes them by before their salvation comes in a simple schooner. Off the southern tip of South America, hostile tribes are found amongst a lost set of islands. Ancient secrets mark the walls of an infinite cave system, and beyond the end of the world an ashen reaper glides across bone-white seas. While described by the author himself as “a very silly book,” the narrative has influenced many celebrated storytellers like Herman Melville, Jules Verne, and H.P. Lovecraft.

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Preface 7

I. The Maddest Freaks in the World 9

II. Affairs of Mere Prejudice 19

III. Some Unaccountable Accident 33

IV. At Length He Did Come 42

V. Consequently Little to Lose 49

VI. All the Details 57

VII. His Own Turn Would Come Shortly 66

VIII. The Sudden Apparition 73

IX. The Immense Weight of Water 81

X. The Most Extravagant Rhodomontades 89

XI. A Condition of Stupid Lethargy 94

XII. This Last Horrible Extremity 101

XIII. Spirits and Strength 110

XIV. The Jane Guy 120

XV. Retracing Our Way to the Westward 129

XVI. Steer to the Southward 134

XVII. Hemmed In by the Ice 139

XVIII. Captain Guy’s Islands 144

XIX. The Village 151

XX. The Day of Universal Dissolution 156

XXI. Grovelling in Utter Darkness 163

XXII. The Most Terrible Effect 167

XXIII. The Bottom of the Hollow 174

XXIV. A Desperate Attempt 180

XXV. A Limitless Cataract 187

Note 192