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.
The book is loosely based on a pamphlet (108-page) autobiography that Melville acquired in the 1840s, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (Providence, Rhode Island, 1824).
" This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation. This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period.
But Melville could not resist the chance to show Captain Paul in his full , rakish pretentiousness paying court to the Lady , while Israel makes strictly Yankee jokes on Scotch armor , the family plate , and inevitably “ Mr. Selkirk ...
Israel Potter
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Best known for producing one of the masterworks of American literature, the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also branched out into many other genres of writing over the course of his career.
" This edition also includes Melville's source material, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter.
"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 ...
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...
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.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This edition of "Israel Potter," which reproduces the definitive text, includes selections from Potteras autobiography, "Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter," the basis for Melvilleas novel.
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Partially based on real events, “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile” tells us ...
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 ...
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period.
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.
This is Melville's Classic tale of a man that was exiled for fifty years.
... list of periodicals that published reviews of Israel Potter was drawn initially from Hugh W. Hetherington , Melville's Reviewers : British and American , 1846– 1891 ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1961 ) , and from ...