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Arthur Gordon Pym, a restless young man from Nantucket, stows away aboard the whaling ship Grampus, hidden in the hold by his friend Augustus. A bloody…
Arthur Gordon Pym, a restless young man from Nantucket, stows away aboard the whaling ship Grampus, hidden in the hold by his friend Augustus. A bloody mutiny breaks out, followed by shipwreck, starvation and cannibalism among the survivors. Rescued by another ship, Pym sails further and further south into the Antarctic, where the sea grows warm, the water is strange, the islanders are hostile, and at the very end a vast white figure rises before him.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was born in Boston to travelling actors and orphaned before he was three. Raised by a Richmond merchant who later disowned him, he lived by his pen as a poet, critic and magazine editor, always short of money. His young wife Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847, and two years later Poe was found delirious in Baltimore and died days later, in circumstances that are still a mystery.
He made the short story an art of total effect, wrote tales of terror such as The Fall of the House of Usher, invented the detective story with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and wrote 'The Raven', one of the most famous poems in English. French poets led by Baudelaire honoured him before America did.