Israel Potter - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598184083 ISBN 13: 9781598184082

Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books, 2006

Synopsis

After fighting in the revolution, he went on to be a part of the newly-established United States Navy, ended up serving as a secret courier for Benjamin Franklin! Bits of this are fiction and may be even more spectacular. . . .

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'Israel Potter' is a historical novel about a soldier in the American Revolution who fought at Bunker Hill, was captured by the British and imprisoned in England, escaped, served as a spy for the American cause, was a sailor under Captain John Paul Jones, and after the war, impoverished and unable to return to his native New England, remained in London until near the end of his life.

About the Author:

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1598184083
• ISBN 13: 9781598184082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164