Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile by Herman Melville
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"Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile" by Herman Melville is a novel published in 1855. Based on a real Revolutionary War veteran's memoir, it follows Israel Potter from the Battle of Bunker Hill through capture by the British and escape to England. There he encounters King George III, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, and Ethan Allen in a series of adventures. Despite his patriotic valor, Israel remains exiled in London poverty
for decades before finally returning home fifty years later to a changed America. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 |
|---|---|
| Title | Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Potter |
| Credits | Dave Maddock, Mary Meehan and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Potter, Israel, 1744-1826? -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 15422 |
| Release Date | Mar 20, 2005 |
| Last Update | Jun 14, 2022 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 738 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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