March 21, 2010 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The leading particulars of this narration were all that Augustus communicated to me while we remained near the box. It was not until afterward that he entered fully into all the details. He was apprehensive of being missed, and I was wild with impatience to leave my detested place of confinement. We resolved to make [...]
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January 24, 2010 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
For some minutes after the cook had left the forecastle, Augustus abandoned himself to despair, never hoping to leave the berth alive. He now came to the resolution of acquainting the first of the men who should come down with my situation, thinking it better to let me take my chance with the mutineers than [...]
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December 5, 2009 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The brig put to sea, as I had supposed, in about an hour after he had left the watch. This was on the twentieth of June. It will be remembered that I had then been in the hold for three days; and, during this period, there was so constant a bustle on board, and so [...]
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September 20, 2009 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The thought instantly occurred to me that the paper was a note from Augustus, and that some unaccountable accident having happened to prevent his relieving me from my dungeon, he had devised this method of acquainting me with the true state of affairs. Trembling with eagerness, I now commenced another search for my phosphorus matches [...]
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June 1, 2009 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data. It might be supposed that a catastrophe such as I have just related would have effectually cooled my incipient passion for the sea. On the contrary, I never experienced a more ardent longing [...]
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March 31, 2009 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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 every thing, and had speculated very successfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was formerly called. By these and [...]
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January 19, 2009 | Comments | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, Va., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the [...]
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