what was it about?
The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages, and drew heavily from Jeremiah N. Reynolds and referenced the Hollow Earth theory.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages, and drew heavily from Jeremiah N. Reynolds and referenced the Hollow Earth theory. He also drew from his own experiences at sea. Analyses of the novel often focus on the potential autobiographical elements as well as its portrayal of race and the symbolism in the final lines of the work.

who created the drawings in the raven room UNANSWERABLE who wrote it? Edgar Allan Poe when was it published? January 1845 how did the critics respond to it? The "New World" said, "Everyone reads the Poem and praises it ... justly, we think, for it seems to us full of originality and power." where was the writer from? Boston, Massachusetts when did he join the army? May 27, 1827 what was his rank? UNANSWERABLE name some of his published work. "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket",  "MS. Found in a Bottle", to name a few when was the first above mentiond book written? 1838
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket [SEP] Introduction
A few serialized installments of "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" were first published in the "Southern Literary Messenger", though never completed. The full novel was published in July 1838 in two volumes. Some critics responded negatively to the work for being too gruesome and for cribbing heavily from other works, while others praised its exciting adventures. Poe himself later called it "a very silly book". In the years since its publication, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" became an influential work, notably for Herman Melville and Jules Verne.