Name: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 978-0554217314

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition

By Edgar Allan Poe 31 Aug, 2019

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Excerpt........MY name is Arthur Gordon Pym. My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in good practice. He was fortunate in everything and had speculated very successfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was formerly called. By these and other means he had managed to lay by a tolerable sum of money. He was more attached to myself, I believe than to any other person in the world, and I expected to inherit most of his property at his death. He sent me, at six years of age, to the school of old Mr. Ricketts, a gentleman with only one arm and of eccentric manners—he is well known to almost every person who has visited New Bedford. I stayed at his school 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 generally sailed in the employ of Lloyd and Vredenburgh—Mr. Barnard is also very well known in New Bedford and has many relations, I am certain, in Edgarton. His son was named Augustus, and he was nearly two years older than myself. Less

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