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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.

by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allan Poe is a novel written and published in 1838. Young Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling ship, launching a harrowing maritime adventure filled with mutiny, shipwreck, and survival against impossible odds. As Pym journeys ever southward toward the Antarctic, his voyage grows increasingly strange and unsettling. Poe's only complete novel blends realistic seafaring detail with mysterious elements that defy easy explanation, culminating in an enigmatic ending near the South Pole.

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