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A NOTE ON THE TEXT

The text selected for this edition of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is that of the 1994 Gordian edition of the The Imaginary Voyages, a reissue of the 1981 G. K. Hall edition of that volume, with minor revisions and corrections. The Imaginary Voyages, the first volume in the Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, features Pym, “The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall,” and “The Journal of Julius Rodman.” The editor of The Imaginary Voyages is Burton R. Pollin, the general editor of the Collected Writings. The text of Pym offered in The Imaginary Voyages is that of the 1838 American first edition of the novel, the only complete edition that Poe authorized. No manuscript of the work has survived. Pollin has silently emended several minor errors. Since the first American edition includes two different chapters labeled “XXIII”—probably because of the late insertion of the first of these—the two have been distinguished in the Pollin edition as “23” and “23 bis.”

THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM.