Edgar Allan Poe

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Annotated) Edgar Allan Poe

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its time. The Arthur Gordon Pym Narrative of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work tells the story of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who is kept on board a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures follow Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before the Jane Guy crew saves him. Aboard this ship, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking ashore, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue to the South Pole.