Gordon Pym facts
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Edgar Allen Poe's novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838) had an eerily coincidence with an incident 46 years after it was published, a yacht sank in real life and 3 of the 4 survivors also decided to eat the cabin boy...named Richard Parker.
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" was so influential that Jules Verne wrote a sequel to it ("An Antarctic Mystery") and Herman Melville and H.P.Lovecraft took a lot of parallels from it for their respective storys "Moby Dick" and "At the mountains of madness".
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In 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story called “The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym,” which details 3 shipwreck survivors eating a cabin boy called Richard Parker. In 1884, a cabin boy named Richard Parker was actually eaten by his shipmates in order to survive after their yacht went adrift.
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In 1837 Edgar Allan Poe moved to New York City. He had grown unhappy with his lack of editorial control at the magazine. While in New York he wrote his only novel titled The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
