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 / Walt Whitman ; with an introduction by Zachary Turpin.
| Author/creator | Whitman, Walt author. |
| Other author | Turpin, Zachary writer of introduction. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | xxii, 156 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Iowa Whitman series Iowa Whitman series. ^A691436 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | "The lost novel of Walt Whitman" -- Front cover. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Autobioraphical fiction. |
| LCCN | 2016057141 |
| ISBN | 9781609385125 hardcover acid-free paper |
| ISBN | 1609385128 hardcover acid-free paper |
| ISBN | 9781609385101 paperback acid-free paper |
| ISBN | 1609385101 paperback acid-free paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |