Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
By Herman Melville
Length7h 25m
About this audiobook
The forgotten hero of the American Revolution wanders through fifty years of exile, poverty, and shifting identities in a foreign land. Israel Potter’s journey is a gritty, picaresque struggle against a fate that refuses to grant him glory. Through his eyes, we see the rough edges of history and the resilience of a man discarded by the nation he helped create.
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GenreHistorical Fiction, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 25 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
2CHAPTER II. THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
3CHAPTER III. ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY’S LAND.
4CHAPTER IV. FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
5CHAPTER V. ISRAEL IN THE LION’S DEN.
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6CHAPTER VI. ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE “DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY,” THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
7CHAPTER VII. AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR. FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED.
8CHAPTER VIII. WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
9CHAPTER IX. ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
10CHAPTER X. ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
11CHAPTER XI. PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
12CHAPTER XII. RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE’S ABODE—HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
13CHAPTER XIII. HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
14CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
15CHAPTER XV. THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
16CHAPTER XVI. THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
17CHAPTER XVII. THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.: “JOHN PAUL JONES.”
18CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
19CHAPTER XIX. THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
20CHAPTER XX. THE SHUTTLE.
21CHAPTER XXI. SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
22CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL’S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
23CHAPTER XXIII. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
24CHAPTER XXIV. CONTINUED.
25CHAPTER XXV. IN THE CITY OF DIS.
26CHAPTER XXVI. FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
27CHAPTER XXVII. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
28“BUNKER-HILL
291775.
30GLORY TO THE HEROES THAT FOUGHT!”
31THE END.
32IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
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