Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN-13: 9781419175145, ISBN-10: 1419175149
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jeffrey Meyers, a distinguished biographer, is the author of Edgar Allan Poe, D. H. Lawrence, and Joseph Conrad, among others. He lives in Berkeley, California.
From the author who introduced readers to chilling tales of murder comes a novella based on factual accounts of a haunting, mutinous high-seas adventure. What begins with a young Nantucket man stowing away on a New Bedford whaler ends with 2 survivors drifting toward the South Pole in an open boat.
Acknowledgements 7
List of Illustrations 9
Introduction 11
Edgar Allan Poe: A Brief Chronology 37
A Note on the Text 47
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 49
Appendix A: Sources for the Novel 249
1 From It Thomas, Remarkable Shipwrecks, A Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval Disasters (1813) 250
2 From John Cleves Syznmes, Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by Captain Adam Seaborn (1820) 251
3 From [James McBride], Syrnmes's Theory of the Concentric Spheres (1826) 253
4 From Jane Porter, Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of His Shipwreck (1831) 256
5 From Archibald Duncan, The Mariner's Chronicle (1804-05) 259
6 From Jeremiah N. Reynolds, The Voyage of the Potomac (1834) 261
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews 262
1 From The New-Yorker (1 August 1838) 262
2 From The New-York Mirror (11 August 1838) 263
3 From Albion (18 August 1838) 263
4 From Knickerbocker Magazine (August 1838) 263
5 From Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (September 1838) 264
6 From Family Magazine (1838) 266
7 From The Torch (13 October 1838) 267
8 From The Spectator (27 October 1838) 267
9 From The Monthly Review (October 1838) 269
Appendix C: Other Writers' Responses to Pym 270
1 From Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) and-Israel Ebner: His FiftyYears of Exile (1855) 271
a From "The Mast-Head," Chapter 35 of Moby-Dick
b From "The Whiteness of the Whale," Chapter 42 of MobyDick
c 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) 275
a "La Greante"
b "A Voyage to Cythera"
c "Travel"
3 From Jules Verne, Le Sphinx des glaces (1897) 283
4 From Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904) 284
Select Bibliography 287