ENGLISH

Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

By Herman Melville , Hennig Cohen

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0823213226, 9780823213221
LCC
PS2384 .I7 1991
Google Books ID
0Q1bAAAAMAAJ
Open Library ID
OL1891026M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1481223 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 Captqain John Paul Jones, and, after war, impoverished and unable to return to his native New England, remained in London until near the end of his life. In addition to a complete reproduction of the second printing (1855) of the novel, an extensive editorial supplement is provided, which includes Professor Cohen's essay "Israel Potter: Background and Foreground" and line-by-line annotions to the novel's text.

Similar books