The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

`It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight into Poe's work as a whole.
The only complete novel by infamous gothic horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, `The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' has inspired other classic tales of maritime adventure, such as Herman Melville's `Moby-Dick' and Jules Verne's `Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'.