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Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile 1St Edition Pdf, Epub, Ebook ISRAEL POTTER HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Herman Melville | 9780143105237 | | | | | Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile 1st edition PDF Book Enlarge cover. That must be a pretty sad, f Around the time that Melville wrote, or began to write Israel Potter , legend has it that he was in pretty dire financial straits. Melville created in Israel Potter the first American Ulysses. But long ago it faded out of print--himself out of being--his name out of memory. Melville, between outrageous experiments, writes a rather straight-forward biography of a forgotten Revolutionary War hero - and the result is hilariously funny. No doubt Israel is uniquely unphilosophical among Melville's protagonists, even stubbornly so. Potter's adventures are fast paced and peopled with many historical figures of the time think of Forest Gump set in , making the story appealing to anyone who simply wants to be entertained, yet there is a great deal of art in the book as well. Each subsequent novel, including Moby Dick, sold less well than its predecessor. Historical semi-fiction, partly rewriting a real published autobiography of an obscure Revolutionary War soldier named Israel Potter, though freely adding to it, bringing in both scenes taken from history books that Potter wasn't really involved in and mixing in pure fiction, with swashbuckling sea battles, prison escapes, secret passages, comic set pieces, meetings with historical figures Ben Franklin, John Paul Jones, Ethan Allen - I generally don't like that sort of thing, but here it was kind of fun. Shipping and insurance charges are additional. Published by Putnam, NY The book is also heavily misogynistic which can be a turnoff for some readers. I'm having trouble recalling even one significant female character or even one minor character that wasn't just an accessory to some other male character or grossly incompetent. This is Melville's Classic tale of a man that was exiled for fifty years. Title character Israel escaping from authority figures and jails several times within the course of 50 pages start I've never been a huge reader of Melville and of the little that I did read I never really cared for much. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Seller Rating:. Literary historians revisited Israel Potter recently, so I decided to give it a read. At what seemed the nadir—after his seventh novel, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities—needing cash, Melville re-worked the story he found in a 2-penny pamphlet. This conflation of freedom and violence is a timelessly resonant critique on American society and politics, one that shows us Melville's hopes for America and explains how we failed. Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure. Israel Potter recounts the life of a young American who fights in the Revolution, is captured at sea by the British Navy. Here, Melville lays down a scathing critique of America's bloodlust that began with the Revolutionary War. Probably should rate this lower Error rating book. Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars — not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge — intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations. Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile 1st edition Writer One of Melville's finest works. Marred by a passive, colorless and astonishingly unlucky hero and a depressingly anti-climactic ending, this novel of the American Revolution was a total commercial failure. The ending is also quite a downer. This is, in short, the opposite of Ayn Rand. Proceed to Basket. He shows us that the war they were fighting wasn't for American freedom, but for personal glory. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Published by Putnam, NY But long ago it faded out of print--himself out of being--his name out of memory. I heard the manuscript for Billy Budd was not discovered until sometime in the 20th Century. Literature and Classics. Thomas Tanselle Editor. Check this, one of my favorite paragraphs in the book: The career of this stubborn adventurer [John Paul Jones] signally illustrates the idea, that since all human affairs are subject to organic disorder; since they are created in, and sustained by, a sort of half-disciplined chaos; hence, he who in great things seeks success, must never wait for smooth water; which never was, and never will be; but with what straggling method he can, dash with all his derangements at his object, leaving the rest to Fortune. The story was very convoluted. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. United States. About the Author. Aug 13, Kevin rated it really liked it. Throughout these adventures, Israel Potter acquits himself bravely, but his patriotic valor does not bring him any closer to his dream of returning to America. A picaresque comic romp based on the dubious biography of a self-proclaimed veteran of the battle of Bunker Hill, it starts off rather slowly. This book is a straight forward narrative of the life of a Revolutionary War soldier. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Israel Potter. Lanesborough, MA, U. Jul 26, Joe rated it it was ok. Few things remain. Spots of dampstaining to covers and to margins of most pages, else clean interior. Potter published , he had been a veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill , a sailor in the Revolutionary navy, a prisoner of the British, an escapee in England, a secret agent and courier in France, and a year exile from his native land as a laborer, pauper, and peddler in London. Next-day or second-day air service is available upon request. True first edition first state with Chapter 14 mis-stated as XVI. Rare in the original binding. Enlarge cover. Seller Image. The story is constantly moving which I think is more often than not a good thing but at moments it can really make the story seem too silly. But the final section of the book made it seem pretty subversive, and though less entertaining kind of great. Bound in the original blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and embossed designs to both covers. Want to Read saving…. Putnam in , mixed state bound in the uncommon red cloth binding. Reddish purple cloth binding with the spine initials ornamented with pendants. It seems that Israel Potter is being messed about with like a piece of clay on a potter's wheel. About this Item: New York, G. When the aged Potter finds the foundations of his childhood home, the reader is hard to pressed not to see resurrection in the aire Melville explicitly calls Potter's return to Massachusetts "a resurrection. Regardless of personal circumstance and depression. Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Helps John Paul Jones blow stuff up! It is adventure. Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile 1st edition Reviews Quite a curious little book. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn and White-Jacket , both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi , which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. When he died in , he was almost completely forgotten. Jun 11, Christian Schwoerke rated it liked it. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Israel Potter , although falling into that latter category of uninteresting Melville reads, was still okay and even enjoyable to an extent. First issue, with Henry Trumbull in the title page imprint; errata list Hence the "Israel" and hence the "Potter". It is brisk and fresh, yet vigorous and even honed, though honed on the run as it were, and so is evidence of a master writer, a man capable of laying down engaging words with little effort. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. Still, if you're interested in post-MD Quite a curious little book. Its a historical novel and simultaneously a novelized biography. The Thames, which far away, among the green fields of Berks, ran clear as a brook, here, polluted by continual vicinity to man, curdled on between rotten wharves, one murky sheet of sewerage. One of the points seems to be how easy it is to build up almost a cult around some of the early leaders of the country and he seems to be asking if they were really as wonderful as they seem. By the mids, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. It's a sort of insulting to talk wisdom to a man like me. Offsetting the light-hearted tone are scenes of shocking violence presented in a dispassionate voice and depicted with such visual clarity that they would not be out of place in Blood Meridian , and a balance between the serious and the silly somehow is achieved.
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