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9780192837714

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Related Tales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192837714

  • ISBN10:

    0192837710

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-11-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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 the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for ourunderstanding of Poe.This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii(14)
Note on the Text xxi(1)
Select Bibliography xxii(2)
A Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe xxiv
THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET
1(284)
MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE
179(11)
LOSS OF BREATH
190(13)
MYSTIFICATION
203(9)
HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE
212(11)
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
223(17)
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
240(16)
THE BALLOON HOAX
256(14)
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
270(15)
Explanatory Notes 285

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