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17 feb 2017 · 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 (Iowa Whitman Series) - Kindle edition by Whitman, Walt, Turpin, Zachary. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
17 feb 2017 · 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, where the sole surviving copy of Jack Engle has lain waiting for generations.
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Learn more about Walt Whitman's novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (2017), which was rediscovered in 2016 and republished the following year and was said to foreshadow his best-known collection of verse, Leaves of Grass (first published in 1855).
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8 set 2017 · Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is a city mystery novel, published anonymously in 1852 and rediscovered in 2017. A quasi-Dickensian tale with more than a few unlikely plot twists and jarring narrative shifts -- a fun, rollicking, creative, twisty, bizarre little book.
- Walt Whitman
1 gen 2018 · The past decade has been a remarkable period of discovery for scholarship on Walt Whitman (1819–92). Exciting new finds have ranged from the more prosaic to the macabre: in 2011, Kenneth M. Price of the University of Nebraska uncovered thousands of documents in the National Archives copied or written by the poet during his time working in federal offices in Washington, DC, during the 1860s ...
17 feb 2017 · Honest and always striving, Jack is a good boy dealt a bad hand in life, helped along by the poor and struggling, by clerks and errand boys and foundlings. The story anticipates by more than a decade the rags-to-riches yarns of Horatio Alger, but unlike Alger, Whitman finds little to admire in the upper crust.
20 feb 2017 · The 36,000-word “Life and Adventures of Jack Engle,” which was discovered last summer by a graduate student, is being republished online on Monday by The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and in ...
