The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novel
Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought
at Bunker Hill, "Israel Potter" is unique among Herman Melville's
books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of
Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the
streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old
Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented scenes and
historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era
as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and
John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American
Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events
that it really was.
This edition of "Israel Potter," which reproduces the definitive
text, includes selections from Potter's autobiography, "Life and
Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter," the basis for
Melville's novel.
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