The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Poe's only novel, and it ends mid-sentence at the South Pole. Nobody has explained the last page since 1838.
- Listening time
- about 7 h 36 min
- Length
- 70,481 words
- First published
- 1838
- Public domain
- the author died in 1849
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 399 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
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How it begins.
My name is Arthur Gordon Pym. My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in good practice. He was fortunate in everything, and had speculated very successfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was formerly called. By these and other means he had managed to lay by a tolerable sum of money. He was more attached to myself, I believe, than to any other person in the world, and I expected to inherit the most of his property at his death.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket · Edgar Allan Poe · 1838
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