«The Narrative of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket» is Edgar Allan Poe’s only finished novel, considered one of the most controversial and mysterious works of his.
The book tells the story of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who hides aboard a whaling ship. He faces all kinds of adventures and misfortunes, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before the ship’s crew rescues him—on the very ship aboard which Pym continues sailing south. The story begins like a fairly ordinary sea adventure, but becomes stranger and stranger, and it’s hard to classify. Later, the novel influenced Herman Melville and Jules Verne.