Arthur Gordon Pym

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Arthur Gordon Pym is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s only completed novel, whose harrowing sea voyage and encounters with mutiny, shipwreck, and the unknown make him a central figure in early American adventure and horror literature.

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instanceOf fictional character
fictional narrator
literary character
novel protagonist
appearsIn The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
associatedGenreMovement American Romanticism
Gothic fiction
associatedWithAuthor Edgar Allan Poe
authorWorkType only completed novel by Edgar Allan Poe
characterType unreliable narrator
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Edgar Allan Poe
fictionalUniverse The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
genre adventure fiction
horror fiction
nautical fiction
sea story
homeLocationInFiction Nantucket
influencedAuthor H. P. Lovecraft
Jules Verne
influencedWork An Antarctic Mystery
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
surface form: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod 19th-century American literature
literarySignificance early American adventure literature
early American horror literature
medium novel
narrativeForm pseudo-memoir
travel narrative
narrativeRole first-person narrator
protagonist
nationalityInFiction American
notableFor encounters with the unknown
harrowing sea voyage
mutiny at sea
shipwreck
occupation sailor
seaman
setting Antarctic regions
Nantucket
South Seas
theme exploration of the unknown
extreme isolation
madness and terror
survival at sea

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