Edgar Allan Poe\'s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth.
Included are eight Related Tales which further illuminate Pym by their treatment of persistent themes--fantastic voyages, gigantic.
It is an archetypal American story of escape from domesticity tracing a young man\'s rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage.
Edgar Allan Poe\'s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth