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Israel Potter
Herman Melville
其他書名
His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition
出版Northwestern University Press, 1982-01-01
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Classics
ISBN08101055359780810105539
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QxS7vwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation.

This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).