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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486810089
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter written by Herman Melville and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spirited saga, a promising young soldier is wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, sets sail with John Paul Jones, and undertakes espionage at the behest of Benjamin Franklin. Herman Melville drew upon the obscure memoirs of a Revolutionary War veteran to create his only historical novel, combining Israel Potter's real-life reminiscences with fictional incidents that lead his hero into encounters with noteworthy figures of colonial America. Recounted with humor and zest, this adventure abounds in sea battles, prison escapes, and other episodes of derring-do. The Village Voice acclaimed Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile as "Melville's most vigorous work: hilarious, tender, expressive, a fierce and rollicking chronicle . . . of brilliantly sustained comedy." This edition also includes Melville's source material, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter.

Author : Israel Potter
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter written by Israel Potter and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel Potter (1744–1826) was a real person born in Cranston, Rhode Island. He fought at The Battle of Bunker Hill, during the American wars of Independence and later was a sailor in the Revolutionary navy. He was captured by the British, imprisoned and escaped. He became a secret agent in France On finally returning penniless to the beloved homeland he campaigned to be given a pension for his service to America.

Author : Israel Potter
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789356905474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter written by Israel Potter and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Author : Israel Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter written by Israel Potter and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Israel R. Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722277430
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter written by Israel R. Potter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Israel R. Potter
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780844627526
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter written by Israel R. Potter and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Israel Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, (a Native of Cranston, Rhode-Island,) who was a Soldier in the American Revolution ... After which He was Taken Prisoner by the British, Conveyed to England, where for 30 Years He Obtained a Livelihood ... by Crying "Old Chairs to Mend" ... written by Israel Potter and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810105535
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel Potter written by and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520218620
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unvarnished Truth written by Ann Fabian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the "plain unvarnished tales" of unschooled beggars, criminals, prisoners, and ex-slaves in the 19th century. Fabian shows how these works illuminate debates over who had the cultural authority to tell and sell their own stories. She gives us the origins of that curious American genre of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck, ala Oprah, et al.

Author : Scott E. Casper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469649047
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing American Lives written by Scott E. Casper and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.