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Israel Potter

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A wandering Revolutionary War veteran’s life story, shaped by exile, disguise, memory, and the unstable promises of national glory.

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Israel Potter

Israel Potter moves through battlefields, prisons, foreign courts, and London streets while history repeatedly turns him into a forgotten witness. Melville blends adventure, political irony, and melancholy reflection on who gets remembered after a revolution.

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Published in 1855; Melville died in 1891. The original English text is public domain under the United States term and life-plus-70 rules.

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Israel Potter

Herman Melville

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His Fifty Years of Exile

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02His Fifty Years of Exile
  3. 03DEDICATION
  4. 04TO HIS HIGHNESS THE Bunker-Hill Monument
  5. 05Fifty Years of Exile
  6. 06CHAPTER I. THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
  7. 07CHAPTER II. THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
  8. 08CHAPTER IV. FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
  9. 09CHAPTER V. ISRAEL IN THE LION’S DEN.
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII. WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
  11. 11CHAPTER IX. ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
  12. 12CHAPTER X. ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
  13. 13CHAPTER XI. PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
  14. 14CHAPTER XII. RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE’S ABODE—HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII. HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
  17. 17CHAPTER XV. THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
  18. 18CHAPTER XVI. THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
  19. 19CHAPTER XVII. THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.
  20. 20“JOHN PAUL JONES.”
  21. 21CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
  22. 22CHAPTER XIX. THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
  23. 23CHAPTER XX. THE SHUTTLE.
  24. 24CHAPTER XXI. SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
  25. 25CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL’S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
  26. 26CHAPTER XXIII. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
  27. 27CHAPTER XXIV. CONTINUED.
  28. 28CHAPTER XXV. IN THE CITY OF DIS.
  29. 29CHAPTER XXVI. FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
  30. 30CHAPTER XXVII. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
  31. 31“BUNKER-HILL
  32. 32GLORY TO THE HEROES THAT FOUGHT!”
  33. 33THE END.

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