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Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym de Nantucket

Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym de Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Mon nom est Arthur Gordon Pym. Mon p re tait un respectable commer ant dans les fournitures de la marine, Nantucket, o je suis n . Mon a eul maternel tait attorney, avec une belle client le. Il avait de la chance en toutes choses, et il fit plusieurs sp culations tr s heureuses sur les fonds de l'Edgarton New Bank, lors de sa cr ation. Par ces moyens et par d'autres, il r ussit se faire une fortune assez passable. Il avait plus d'affection pour moi, je crois, que pour toute autre personne au monde, et j'avais lieu d'esp rer la plus grosse part de cette fortune sa mort. Il m'envoya, l' ge de six ans, l' cole du vieux M. Ricketts, brave gentleman qui n'avait qu'un bras, et de mani res assez excentrique
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Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym (Spanish) Edition

Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym (Spanish) Edition

Edgar Allan Poe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Cuando todos nos hubimos tranquilizado, nos pusimos a mirar la nave que se alejaba, hasta que se perdi de vista. El tiempo empeoraba y soplaba un ligero viento. En el preciso momento en que el buque desapareci en el horizonte, Parker se volvi hacia m con una expresi n en la cara que me dio escalofr os. Ten a un aire de seguridad y entereza que nunca le hab a observado. Antes de que despegara los labios, yo ten a el p lpito de lo que iba a decirme. En una palabra, insinu que uno de nosotros deb a morir con el fin de salvar a los dem s.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Edgar Allan Poe

Broadview Press Ltd
2010
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Edgar Allan Poe's only long fiction has provoked intense scholarly discussions about its meaning since its first publication. The novel relates the adventures of Pym after he stows away on a whaling ship, where he endures starvation, encounters with cannibals, a whirlpool, and finally a journey to an Antarctic sea. It draws on the conventions of travel writing and science fiction, and on Poe's own experiences at sea, but is ultimately in a category of its own.Appendices include virtually all of the contemporary sources of exploration and south polar navigation that Poe consulted and adapted to the narrative, together with reviews and notices of Pym and a sampling of responses to the novel from a wide array of authors, from Herman Melville to Jules Verne. Seven illustrations are also included.
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Conversations with Mary Gordon

Conversations with Mary Gordon

University Press of Mississippi
2002
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In Conversations with Mary Gordon, Mary Gordon reveals her intellectual vigor, her freewheeling humor, and her strongly held opinions on issues ranging from sex to contemporary literature and gender theory. With candor, she details her departure from and eventual return to her Irish-Catholic heritage. Since the resounding success of her first novel, Final Payments (1978), Gordon has been one of America's most popular and controversial writers. She has published five novels, three novellas, two collections of essays, a short story collection, a memoir, a biography of Joan of Arc, and dozens of book reviews. Conversations with Mary Gordon joins the writer in talks with Terry Gross, Charlie Rose, Edmund White, Madison Smartt Bell, Patrick H. Samway, and others. Nine of these interviews have never before been published. Her many interviewers know her as a wonderful, gregarious, passionate, and articulate interviewee. This is surprising, considering that Gordon once insisted during an interview that ""interviews are absolutely my idea of hell."" The clarity and conviction evident in her writing are matched by the same qualities in her conversation. She explores her favorite novelists--Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford--and talks at length about how and why she uses Roman Catholicism as metaphor and symbol in her own writing. Freely discussing the autobiographic influences in her work, she is open about the huge influence of her father. David Gordon, a journalist and scholar, died when Mary was seven. Mary loved him dearly, and she discusses his influence on her life and writing, as well as her profound disillusionment with him when she discovered the self-hatred and ultra-conservatism of his writing. Her utter devotion to him in early interviews gives way to disillusionment, rejection, and, ultimately, acceptance. This collection allows the reader to trace the roots--both literary and autobiographical--of one of America's most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers. Alma Bennett is an associate professor of humanities and English at Clemson University.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe; Jonathan Maberry

WordFire Press
2023
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Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the first adventure stories set in and around the Antarctic, which at the time was a place of mystery and the unknown.Pym takes us on an adventure across the seas to uncharted southern lands that are fraught with danger. With shipwrecks, murder, mutiny, and, yes, cannibalism, this tale has it all. First published in 1838, midway between Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Stevenson's Treasure Island, Poe's Pym echoes one and presages the other while delving even deeper into the darkness of men's souls.This new edition, with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author and Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry, brings the classic tale back to life. Not for the faint of heart, Poe's novel, which inspired H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H.P. Lovecraft, and many others, reflects the wonder and dangers of exploring the unknown.
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Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon (Esprios Classics)

Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon (Esprios Classics)

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Blurb
2025
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Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 - 24 June 1870) was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer and politician. According to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry". The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished.
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La Narración de Arthur Gordon Pym (Spanish Edition)

La Narración de Arthur Gordon Pym (Spanish Edition)

Edgar Allan Poe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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El protagonista, Arthur Gordon Pym, se embarca clandestinamente en el barco ballenero Grampus. Tras muchas experiencias y desgracias (motines, naufragios, canibalismo, guerras con nativos) que ponen en riesgo su vida, se interna en parajes prodigiosos de los mares ant rticos, hasta que sufre una sobrecogedora revelaci n con la que culmina la historia. La narraci n de Arthur Gordon Pym es una de las obras m s controvertidas, extra as y enigm ticas de su autor, cont ndose entre los excelentes t tulos poeanos de tema marinero, junto a Manuscrito encontrado en una botella, La caja oblonga y Un descenso al Maelstr m. Se trata de una novela de aventuras de tipo epis dico, centrada muy directamente en el intr pido protagonista que le da t tulo, personaje que encontrar a eco posteriormente en las obras de Robert Louis Stevenson (Secuestrado, La isla del tesoro, Los hombres alegres, etc.). En esta obra, Poe, a bordo del Grampus, se deja llevar en alas de su desenfrenada imaginaci n a regiones mentales y literarias que nunca antes hab a hollado -de ah el absorbente inter s que han mostrado por la pieza desde los escritores surrealistas hasta los psicoanalistas literarios de toda condici n-. La fant stica peripecia se desborda en manos del autor, tanto que apenas da respiro al lector entre secuencia y secuencia (la acci n apenas articula tiempos muertos de enlace), cosa que se ha achacado al autor como defecto estructural.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages, and drew heavily from Jeremiah N. Reynolds and referenced the Hollow Earth theory. He also drew from his own experiences at sea. Analyses of the novel often focus on the potential autobiographical elements as well as hints of racism and the symbolism in the final lines of the work.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages, and drew heavily from Jeremiah N. Reynolds and referenced the Hollow Earth theory. He also drew from his own experiences at sea. Analyses of the novel often focus on the potential autobiographical elements as well as hints of racism and the symbolism in the final lines of the work.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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The only novel of Poe tell us the story of Arthur Gordon Pym, a New England boy that sailors away and cross over the globe having many adventures and misfortunes. From Revolts, crashing ships and even cannibalism to the very far South Pole. Poe has commented that his novel was a bit silly in many regards, buy it remains an inspiration as it was for Melville's "Moby Dick" and Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the sea". He found the seed of the story 1836 in a newspaper article about a shipwreck and the rescue of the two gentlemen on board. Poe ingrain this famous tale with such allegorical abundance, biblical symbolism, and psychological insights. It calls thought to the act of writing and to the problem of illustrating the truth. It is an archetypal American story of a breakout from family life tracing a young man's initiatory rite through a series of extreme encounters with death during a fateful sea trip. Included are eight related stories which make Pym a profound character by their treatment of constant topics; incredible voyages, gigantic maelstroms, and early funerals, as well as the life and relationship with art of the author.
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