The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

ISBN-13: 9781551118383 / Miękka / 2010 / 294 str.

Edgar Allan Poe

Opis

A novel that relates the adventures of Pym after he stows away on a whaling ship, where he endures starvation, encounters with cannibals a whirlpool, and finally a journey to an iceless Antarctic sea. It draws on the conventions of travel writing and science fiction, and on Edgar Allan Poe's own experiences at sea.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Appendix A: Sources for the Novel

1. From R. Thomas, Remarkable Shipwrecks, A Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval Disasters (1813)
2. From John Cleves Symmes, Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by Captain Adam Seaborn (1820)
3. From [James McBride], Symmes’s Theory of the Concentric Spheres (1826)
4. From Jane Porter, Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative of His Shipwreck (1831)
5. From Archibald Duncan, The Mariner’s Chronicle (1804–05)
6. From Jeremiah N. Reynolds, The Voyage of the Potomac (1834)

Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews

1. From The New-Yorker (1 August 1838)
2. From The New-York Mirror (11 August 1838)
3. From Albion (18 August 1838)
4. From Knickerbocker Magazine (August 1838)
5. From Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine (September 1838)
6. From Family Magazine (1838)
7. From The Torch (13 October 1838)
8. From The Spectator (27 October 1838)
9. From The Monthly Review (October 1838)

Appendix C: Other Writers’ Responses to Pym

1. From Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) and Israel Potter:His Fifty Years of Exile (1855)
1. From “The Mast-Head,” Chapter 35 of Moby-Dick
2. From “The Whiteness of the Whale,” Chapter 42 of Moby-Dick
3. From “Chapter 12. Israel Returns to the Squire’s Abode—His Adventures There,” in Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
2. From Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (1857)
1. “La Géante”
2. “A Voyage to Cythera”
3. “Travel”
3. From Jules Verne, Le Sphinx des glaces (1897)
4. From Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904)

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