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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 p...
8 set 2017 · Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is a city mystery novel, published anonymously in 1852 andrediscovered in 2017. A quasi-Dickensian tale with more than a few unlikely plottwists and jarring narrative shifts -- a fun,rollicking, creative, twisty, bizarre little book.
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 is a city mystery novel by Walt Whitman. It was first published anonymously in 1852 as a serial in a newspaper before being rediscovered in 2017, when it was reprinted in journal article and book form.
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, at the 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 ...
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17 feb 2017 · "The 36,000-word Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, which was discovered last summer by a graduate student, is. . . . A quasi-Dickensian tale of an orphan’s adventures, it features a villainous lawyer, virtuous Quakers, glad-handing politicians, a sultry Spanish dancer and more than a few unlikely plot twists and jarring narrative shifts."
For those interested in his life, a book published last year called Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians provides a fascinating look at a pre Civil War counter-culture and the curious coterie that inhabited Pfaffs bar in NYC, including Whitman, John Wilkes Booth's brother and a young Thomas Nast.
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