Israel Potter
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| Author | Herman Melville |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure fiction |
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| Publication place | United States |
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| Preceded by | Pierre: or, The Ambiguities |
| Followed by | The Piazza Tales |
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855. A pirated edition was also published in London by George Routledge in May 1855. The book is loosely based on a pamphlet (108-page) autobiography that Melville acquired in the 1840s, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (Providence, Rhode Island, 1824).