The complete online text of Israel Potter by Herman Melville.

Herman Melville drew upon his adventurous travels on sea and land for the primary materials of his greatest fiction and poetry. Out of his experiences in the merchant service (1839), the whaling industry (1841- 1843), and the United States Navy (1843-184...

Herman Melville, who died almost forgotten although he had once been a popular author and had left behind ten notable books of prose fiction and four of verse, has gathered increasing fame, especially for his metaphysical whaling novel, Moby-Dick (1851)....

Herman Melville, who died almost forgotten although he had once been a popular author and had left behind ten notable books of prose fiction and four of verse, has gathered increasing fame, especially for his metaphysical whaling novel, Moby-Dick. Like m...

Herman Melville's 'Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile' has been unjustly dismissed as diffuse and having a vague conclusion. On the contrary, the book tells the story of the human condition. The opening of the book finds narrator and reader submersed in the...

Herman Melville's critically acclaimed work, 'Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile,' provides a glimpse of how Melville altered his dealings with his audience. These dealings can be examined more thoroughly through an analysis of the strategy adopted by Melville in his packaging of...