Text: Horace Greeley (???), “[Review of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym],” New Yorker (New York, NY), vol. V, no. 20, August 4, 1848, p. 317, col. 1

Pym's Narrative — The Harpers have just published “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, comprising the details of a Mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1837; with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivers; their shipwreck and consequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British schooner Jane Grey; the brief cruise of the latter vessel in the Antarctic Ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the 84th parallel of Southern: latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still further South to which that discovery gave rise.” This is a work of extraordinary, freezing interest, beyond any thing we ever read. It is more marvelous than the wildest fiction, yet is presented and supported as sober truth. We commenced by reading a few chapters in the middle, but found that would not suffice at all. Those who delight in the wonderful and horrible have a feast before them. Mr. Edgar A. Poe is understood to have assisted in preparing the work for the press. (1 vol. 12mo.)