A Strange Discovery (Esprios Classics)

A Strange Discovery is an 1899 novel by Charles Romyn Dake and is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket which was published in 1838. It follows the experiences of the narrator an Englishman during his stay in Bellevue Illinois and his encounter with Dirk Peters Pym's sailor companion in Poe's novel. On his deathbed Peters relates the missing conclusion to Poe's tale. The story is set in 1877 forty-nine years after the events in Arthur Gordon Pym and thirty-nine years after the publication of that book.