Armada

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.<br></p><p>&#8216;It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.&#8217;<br></p><p>Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures &#8211; mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism &#8211; narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight into Poe&#8217;s work as a whole.<br></p><p>The only complete novel by infamous gothic horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, &#8216;The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket&#8217; has inspired other classic tales of maritime adventure, such as Herman Melville&#8217;s &#8216;Moby-Dick&#8217; and Jules Verne&#8217;s &#8216;Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea&#8217;.<br></p>