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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile Paperback - 2008
by Herman Melville; Introduction by Robert S. Levine; Notes by Robert S. Levine
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The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novel
Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was.
This edition of Israel Potter, which reproduces the definitive text, includes selections from Potter's autobiography, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, the basis for Melville's novel.
Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was.
This edition of Israel Potter, which reproduces the definitive text, includes selections from Potter's autobiography, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, the basis for Melville's novel.
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- Title Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
- Author Herman Melville; Introduction by Robert S. Levine; Notes by Robert S. Levine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date March 25, 2008
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143105237 / 014310523X
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.1 x 0.52 in (19.61 x 12.95 x 1.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1300
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Library Journal, 06/01/2008, Page 142
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