The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket: Comprising The Details Of A Mutiny And Atrocious Butchery On Board The American Brig Grampus, On Her Way To The South Seas, In The Month Of June, 1827.

🎧Listening Length = 8 hours and 46 minutesRead by an Audie Award–winning narrator: Young Arthur Gordon Pym faces harrowing experiences while aboard the Grampus, a whaling vessel sailing south from Nantucket. Hailed as “Poe’s greatest work” by Jorge Luis Borges and named one of the 100 best English novels by the Guardian, this enduring classic is the only complete novel the author ever wrote!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.