2017 - Robert Weiss - The Cryptography of Edgar Allan Poe

Overview: started so uh edgar allan poe's only full-length novel he wrote mostly short stories was a book called the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket it was published in 1838 and it's a seafaring tale and many think that um it sort of became a precursor or a guide for melville's moby dick which is published in 1851. poe loved to tell people that the uh that the novel was uh was true um of course it was not um and it's uh like uh not unlike moby dick um it includes a group of characters who go t

Key Topics: hrough a whole series of sailing and seafaring adventures and one of these adventures um four of the characters find themselves on a