The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2006
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-102351-9 (ISBN)

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Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure, so he stows away on a whaling ship. But he gets more excitement soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. The nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It seems they are being punished for their sins.

Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure. So he stows away on a whaling ship bound for the South Pacific. But he gets more excitement than he could ever have imagined when, soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. As the leaderless ship sails deep into high southern latitudes, the ravenous sailors begin to regret their treachery. Storms overwhelm the decks, and the nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It seems they are being punished for their sins.

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet, a master of the horror tale, credited with practically inventing the detective story. Poe's first collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) contained one of his most famous works, "The Fall of the House of Usher." During the early 1840s Poe's best-selling work was The Conchologist's First Book (1839). The dark poem of lost love, "The Raven," brought Poe national fame, when it appeared in 1845. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and "The Purloined Letter" are among Poe's most famous detective stories.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.2006
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Red Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	114 x 181 mm
Gewicht	190 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-14-102351-1 / 0141023511
ISBN-13	978-0-14-102351-9 / 9780141023519
Zustand	Neuware