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Reception. Play adaptation. External links. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855.
- Herman Melville
- 1855
Israel Potter, fictionalized story by Herman Melville of an American who fought in the War of Independence and of his subsequent struggles for survival. It was published serially in 1854–55 in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine and in 1855 in book form. This short picaresque novel was based on a historical.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Israel Potter starts with Potter's life before the Revolution and leads up to his service in the army. He's captured and sent to England and that's where the action really begins. He begins trying to escape and has amazing adventures, including being used as a spy by Benjamin Franklin.
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Mar 25, 2008 · Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (Penguin Classics) Paperback – March 25, 2008. 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.
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- Herman Melville
- $16
- Penguin Classics
Mar 20, 2005 · Such, at this day, is the country which gave birth to our hero: prophetically styled Israel by the good Puritans, his parents, since, for more than forty years, poor Potter wandered in the wild wilderness of the world’s extremest hardships and ills.
Written and published by Henry Trumbull, a Providence, Rhode Island, author and printer, The Life and Remarkable Adven- tures of Israel R. Potter was the authorized biography of a man who claimed to be a forgotten hero of the American Revolutionary War.
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 ...
