sentences:  Other Pym novels portray Everard and Mildred as a married couple, usually unseen.As with most of Pym's books, the plot is less important than the precise drawing of the comic characters (such as Everard's elderly mother who is obsessed with the suppression of woodworm) and situations.Pym completed the novel in February 1951, and it was published by Jonathan Cape in 1952.