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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
Based on a real Revolutionary War veteran's memoir, it follows Israel Potter from the Battle of Bunker Hill through capture by the British and escape to England.
"Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile" by Herman Melville is a novel. Based on a real Revolutionary War veteran's memoir, it follows Israel Potter from the Battle of Bunker Hill through capture by the British and escape to England.
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The traveller who at the present day is content to travel in the good old Asiatic style, neither rushed along by a locomotive, nor dragged by a stage-coach; who is willing to enjoy hospitalities at far-scattered farmhouses, instead of paying his bill at an inn; who is not to be frightened by any amount of loneliness, or to be deterred by the roughest roads or the highest hills; such a traveller in the eastern part of Berkshire, Massachusetts, will find ample food for poetic reflection in the singular scenery of a country, which, owing to the ruggedness of the soil and its lying out of the track of all public conveyances, remains almost as unknown to the general tourist as the interior of Bohemia.
Contents
- 01Israel Potter
- 02Fifty Years of Exile
- 03Chapter I. The Birthplace of Israel.
- 04Chapter II. The Youthful Adventures of Israel.
- 05Chapter III. Israel Goes to the Wars; and Reaching Bunker Hill in Time to Be of Service There, Soon After Is Forced to Extend His Travels Across the Sea Into the Enemy’s Land.
- 06Chapter IV. Further Wanderings of the Refugee, with Some Account of a Good Knight of Brentford Who Befriended Him.
- 07Chapter V. Israel in the Lion’s Den.
- 08Chapter VI. Israel Makes the Acquaintance of Certain Secret Friends of America, One of Them Being the Famous Author of the “Diversions of Purley,” These Despatch Him on a Sly Errand Across the Channel
- 09Chapter VII. After a Curious Adventure Upon the Pont Neuf, Israel Enters the Presence of the Renowned Sage, Dr. Franklin, Whom He Finds Right Learnedly and Multifariously Employed.
- 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
- 321775.
- 33Glory to the Heroes That Fought!”
- 34The End.
About this edition
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 212 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers