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Novel · 1838

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

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Novel · 1838 · American · Romantic

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's only novel: mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism and a white figure at the pole.

AdventureGothic fictionSeaHungerWhitenessThe unknown

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An unfinished hallucination that haunted Melville and Borges — the voyage south becomes a voyage out of meaning entirely.

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