The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales AUTH-1496438 Laura Pontieri teaches Russian and

Laura Pontieri teaches Russian and Soviet cinema at the University of Toronto

Drawing from sources that include mainstream

ISBN13: 9780892725755

ISBN10: 080073338X

ISBN10: 0578032864

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales AUTH-1496438 Laura Pontieri teaches Russian andEdgar 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. 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. Included are eight related tales which further illuminate Pym by their treatment of