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- # Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
## Overview
*Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile* is a novel by Herman Melville, published in 1855. The text spans from line 1 to line 7483 of the source file `israel_potter.txt`.
## Context
This novel is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It was extracted from the file `israel_potter.txt`.
## Contents
The novel is structured with an introduction, dedication, table of contents, and twenty-seven chapters, followed by backmatter.
The introductory material includes:
* [Introduction](arke:01KG8AJHFG2FF72NJPYPHFKDPF)
* [DEDICATION](arke:01KG8AJHFM1AW6AR4S95J52CVK)
* [CONTENTS](arke:01KG8AJHFHGVMT6J7DT3SXY5EY)
The main body of the novel comprises the following chapters:
* [CHAPTER I. THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.](arke:01KG8AJHFMBAB9MB1FX78RYMZR)
* [CHAPTER II. THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.](arke:01KG8AJHFM4S3HHFVTHGZ033WY)
* [CHAPTER 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](arke:01KG8AJHFMCDZKHPXTDK6NQM6D)
* [CHAPTER IV. FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.](arke:01KG8AJHFMR6R4CCG9PCNQ5FDA)
* [CHAPTER V. ISRAEL IN THE LION’S DEN.](arke:01KG8AJHFQP29KQ09WMGVG54R1)
* [CHAPTER 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.](arke:01KG8AJHFMFJW3QNPRWK5HSTKQ)
* [CHAPTER VII.](arke:01KG8AJHFQE8BQF89PD6K8FN70)
* [CHAPTER VIII. WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.](arke:01KG8AJJ1ZGSM27E73B2NAYBXX)
* [CHAPTER IX. ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.](arke:01KG8AJJ212KH6VW4PD96ZS3YF)
* [CHAPTER X. ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.](arke:01KG8AJJ26N7N0C417TC8ET2RR)
* [CHAPTER XI. PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.](arke:01KG8AJJ2100ZTQDZNX24CBV1P)
* [CHAPTER XII. RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE’S ABODE—HIS ADVENTURES THERE.](arke:01KG8AJJ20F155CN1VA4X6YHX3)
* [CHAPTER XIII. HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.](arke:01KG8AJJ261FWJ1RK528BTY9AX)
* [CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.](arke:01KG8AJJ2DZZK95NXNEVKJHN3D)
* [CHAPTER XV. THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.](arke:01KG8AJJ2BS6J4A9ZFCQ5A5GJ8)
* [CHAPTER XVI. THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.](arke:01KG8AJJ2BDJ8N0FXM1C21XVSG)
* [CHAPTER XVII. THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.](arke:01KG8AJJ2A7N87KT834RNHTNPX)
* [CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.](arke:01KG8AJJRQ70FGB5WT6Z54FG38)
* [CHAPTER XIX. THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.](arke:01KG8AJJRQ4SKWG11NYNT96ERE)
* [CHAPTER XX. THE SHUTTLE.](arke:01KG8AJJRQA5EDSW298W4T2SYR)
* [CHAPTER XXI. SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.](arke:01KG8AJJRT3BSKR423BGDM4MS8)
* [CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL’S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.](arke:01KG8AJJRT48TB2TKJX44CVWC1)
* [CHAPTER XXIII. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.](arke:01KG8AJJRTSPPV0WM71TZXDPYD)
* [CHAPTER XXIV. CONTINUED.](arke:01KG8AJJRWK23SMRRZNAND3MSF)
* [CHAPTER XXV. IN THE CITY OF DIS.](arke:01KG8AJJRWBE8SV99PER96J4GW)
* [CHAPTER XXVI. FORTY-FIVE YEARS.](arke:01KG8AJJRWNYCFCKFX5G6XWAGY)
* [CHAPTER XXVII. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.](arke:01KG8AJJRW0X9WGP6T2MJ7WX66)
The novel concludes with [THE END.](arke:01KG8AJKM648GGFQV1FJEHN8BY).
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