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Plot summary. Factual basis. Reception. Play adaptation. External links. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855.
- Herman Melville
- 1855
Israel Potter, fictionalized story by Herman Melville of an American who fought in the War of Independence and of his subsequent struggles for survival. It was published serially in 1854–55 in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine and in 1855 in book form. This short picaresque novel was based on a historical.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Written and published by Henry Trumbull, a Providence, Rhode Island, author and printer, The Life and Remarkable Adven- tures of Israel R. Potter was the authorized biography of a man who claimed to be a forgotten hero of the American Revolutionary War.
20 de mar. de 2005 · Such, at this day, is the country which gave birth to our hero: prophetically styled Israel by the good Puritans, his parents, since, for more than forty years, poor Potter wandered in the wild wilderness of the world’s extremest hardships and ills.
Israel Potter starts with Potter's life before the Revolution and leads up to his service in the army. He's captured and sent to England and that's where the action really begins. He begins trying to escape and has amazing adventures, including being used as a spy by Benjamin Franklin.
Israel Potter, indeed, notwithstanding some fine passages and some skilful descriptions, is rather heavy reading. Its style is, in the main, flowing and graceful, and its tone genial and healthy; and yet the author fails to interest us very much in the fortunes of his hero. His character, in truth, lacks those elements which arrest and enchain ...
