Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine (Introduction by), Robert S. Levine (Notes by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-03-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143105237ISBN-10:014310523XUPC:9780143105237Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Action & Adventure, Classics, LiterarySize:7.72 x 5.10 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCFZ9YV22M
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143105237ISBN-10:014310523XUPC:9780143105237Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Action & Adventure, Classics, LiterarySize:7.72 x 5.10 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCFZ9YV22M
Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to...
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