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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile

By Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine (Introduction), Robert S. Levine (Noted by)
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By Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine (Introduction), Robert S. Levine (Noted by)
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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 London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos ...

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