The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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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 of America
surface form: 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 Antarctica
surface form: Antarctic region

Atlantic Ocean
Nantucket
structure two-part narrative
titleCharacter Arthur Gordon Pym

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