His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is a town in America, near the sea. People from Nantucket are often sailors. His grandfather is a lawyer. He's famous and he's very rich. Gordon Pym is very lucky.
He is only eighteen years old, but he as a small boat. Its name is the Ariel. He often goes sailing on the Ariel, near Nantucket. He has a good education and a dream: he wants to go to sea. This is the story of his adventures at sea. He meets pirates, a ghost ship, and storms.
He visits Kerguelen's Land, Prince Edward's Island and Tristan da Cunha before arriving in Antarctica.
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature.
Syllabus
Articles: a, an, the
Nouns: countable and uncountable, plural, possessive
Pronouns: subject, object
Quantifiers: some any, more
Adjectives: possessive, opinion
Prepositions: place, time, movement
Verbs: Present Simple, Present
Adverbs: frequency, manner
POE EDGAR ALLAN
Edgar Allan Poe nació en Boston el 19 de enero de 1809 y murió en Baltimore el 7 de octubre de 1849. Hijo de actores itinerantes, quedó huérfano muy pequeño y fue criado por John Allan, de quien tomó su segundo nombre. Estudió en la Universidad de Virginia y en la Academia Militar de West Point, aunque no concluyó sus estudios. Se destacó como poeta, narrador, crítico y periodista, considerado maestro del cuento moderno, pionero del relato policial y de la ciencia ficción. Entre sus obras más célebres figuran El cuervo, Los crímenes de la calle Morgue y El gato negro.
