This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. When Israel Potter leaves his plough to

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 betwe

Best known for producing one of the masterworks of American literature, the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also branched out into many other genres of writing