Publisher's Synopsis
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, and literary critic. Poe is considered to be the inventor of detective fiction and he was one of the earliest and greatest practitioners of the short story. Poe also wrote The Raven, which is one of the most famous poems ever written. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Poe's only complete novel. The plot centers around the adventures of a young man aboard a whaling ship. The book is notable for being difficult to classify and it also influenced other great authors such as Herman Melville and Jules Verne.
