Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight
Northwestern University Press, 1997
Paper: 978-0-8101-1591-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2010-5
Library of Congress Classification PS2384.I7 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.3
Paper: 978-0-8101-1591-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2010-5
Library of Congress Classification PS2384.I7 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.3
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." 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).
This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
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