The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Poe, Edgar Allan

My name is Arthur Gordon Pym. My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores atNantucket, where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in goodpractice. He was fortunate in everything, and had speculated very successfully instocks of the Edgarton New-Bank, as it was formerly called. By these and othermeans he had managed to lay by a tolerable sum of money. He was more attachedto myself, I believe, than to any other person in the world, and I expected to inheritthe most of his property at his death. He sent me, at six years of age, to the schoolof old Mr. Ricketts, a gentleman with only one arm, and of eccentric manners-he iswell known to almost every person who has visited New Bedford. I stayed at hisschool until I was sixteen, when I left him for Mr. E. Ronald's academy on the hill.Here I became intimate with the son of Mr. Barnard, a sea captain, who generallysailed in the employ of Lloyd and Vredenburgh-Mr. Barnard is also very wellknown in New Bedford, and has many relations, I am certain, in Edgarton.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B091CFFXG6
• ISBN13: 9798730225138
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"