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The narrative of ARthur Gordon pym of Nantucket
(eBook)
Edgar Allan Poe
eBook. Boekenplan 2011.
ISBN 9789086660360
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Over de uitgeverij
After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery-even death. As Jeffrey Meyers writes in his Introduction: '[Poe] remains contemporary because he appeals to basic human feelings and expresses universal themes common to all men in all languages: dreams, love, loss; grief, mourning, alienation; terror, revenge, murder; insanity, disease, and death.' Within the pages of this novel, we encounter nearly all of them
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