【BOOK LOVERS专享164元】Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile 伊斯雷尔·波特 Herman Melville 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔 The Northwestern-Newberry Edition 版本是美国现代语言协会批准文本 英语英文原版 英语进阶权威版
Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation.
This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
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