Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition by Melville, Herman

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810105539)

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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition by Melville, Herman

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition

$55.00
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition by Melville, Herman

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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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).


Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 0810105535
ISBN-13: 9780810105539
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1982
Pages: 401
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.19w x 0.94d
By Herman Melville
By Herman Melville
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HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

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