Life and adventures of Jack Engle: an auto-biography : a story of New York at the present time in which the reader will find some familiar characters /
In 1852, young Walt Whitman--a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn--was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published under a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Iowa Whitman series.
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| Summary: | In 1852, young Walt Whitman--a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn--was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. A short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle appeared to little fanfare. Then it disappeared. No one laid eyes on it until 2016, when literary scholar Zachary Turpin, University of Houston, followed a paper trail deep into the Library of Congress. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "The lost novel of Walt Whitman" -- Front cover. |
| Physical Description: | xxii, 156 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781609385125 1609385128 9781609385101 1609385101 |