Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
- ISBN-10
- 0446592870
- ISBN-13
- 9780446592871
- Series
- Israel Potter
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1925
- Publisher
- Warner Paperback Library
- Author
- Herman Melville
Description
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: It is 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, 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.
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