The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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fictional work novel

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only completed novel, a dark seafaring adventure that blends nautical realism with gothic horror and the uncanny.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional work → novel →
author	Edgar Allan Poe →
containsElement	gothic horror → nautical realism → uncanny phenomena →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
firstPublisher	Harper & Brothers →
frameNarrative	pseudo-memoir →
genre	adventure fiction → gothic fiction → horror fiction → nautical fiction → sea story →
hasEnding	abrupt and ambiguous conclusion →
hasLiterarySignificance	Poe’s only completed novel → early American Antarctic fiction →
hasTheme	cannibalism → exploration → mutiny → racial anxiety → shipwreck → survival at sea → the uncanny → the unknown →
influenced	An Antarctic Mystery → At the Mountains of Madness → Moby-Dick → Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas →
influencedBy	contemporary sea narratives →
isOnlyNovelBy	Edgar Allan Poe →
literaryMovement	American Romanticism →
mainProtagonist	Arthur Gordon Pym →
narrativeDevice	fictional editor’s preface →
narrativeForm	first-person narrative →
notableCharacter	Dirk Peters →
originalLanguage	English →
period	19th-century American literature →
placeOfPublication	New York City →
publicationYear	1838 →
relatedWork	An Antarctic Mystery → At the Mountains of Madness →
setting	Antarctic region → Atlantic Ocean → Nantucket →
structure	two-part narrative →
titleCharacter	Arthur Gordon Pym →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Edgar Allan Poe →	notableWork