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by: Herman Melville See Larger Image List Price: $21.00 Our Price: $17.01 You Save: $3.99 (19%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $2.01 Third Party New Price: $13.59 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3 EAN: 9780810115910 ISBN: 0810115913 Label: Northwestern University Press Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 235 Publication Date: January 07, 1998 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Sales Rank: 1274493 Studio: Northwestern University Press Related Items: Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) The Piazza Tales Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Penguin Classics) Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the Merchant Service (Penguin English Library) Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was. 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A charming (if over-the-top) spoof of Revolutionary heroics After the financial failure of "Moby-Dick" and the social scandal of "Pierre," Melville settled down to write a book that would please the public, his publisher, and (most important at this point in his life) his bank account. He promised George Putnam (his publisher) both "nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious" and "nothing weighty." In short, he wrote an adventure story. But not just any adventure story. Melville drew on a little-known autobiography published 30 years earlier ... Read More Rating: - The least known and most humorous of Melville's works. This book is at the same time the least and the most "Melvillian" of all Melville's corpus. Melville wrote in Moby-Dick that "two thirds of the world revolve in darkness." This idea certaily holds true for most of Melville's works, but not Israel Potter. In this uncharacteristically light-hearted and crisply written rewriting of American history, Melville gives an early literary version of Woody Allen's film Zelig. The character Israel Potter is that same sort of insignificant historical non-entity ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Literature - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Melville, Herman - ( M ) - Authors, A-Z - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General Melville, Herman - ( M ) - Authors, A-Z - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Paperback