The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838. It tells of a young man who stows away aboard a whaling ship and is plunged into a nightmare of mutiny, shipwreck, starvation, and horror on the open sea, before being carried far south into the unknown waters and islands near the Antarctic. Blending the realism of a sea voyage with growing strangeness and dread, the story builds to one of the most famous and mysterious endings in American literature. It has haunted and inspired later writers from Jules Verne to H. P. Lovecraft. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.