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