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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 ...
- Walt Whitman, Zachary Turpin
- 1852
21 feb 2017 · Walt Whitman's lost novel The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle found. Described by Whitman scholar as a ‘a fun, rollicking, creative, twisty, bizarre little book’, the discovery has been...
- Walt Whitman, Zachary Turpin
- 1852
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography. Volume 34 Number 3 ( 2017) Special Double Issue: Walt Whitman’s Newly. pps. 262-357. Discovered “Jack Engle”.
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31 mag 2018 · The story is told in the first person by Jack Engle and has the feel of a Dickens tale set in New York City, with its rags to riches story and lively and engaging characters. (Margaret Espaillat)
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.
20 feb 2017 · Books. ‘Life and Adventures of Jack Engle’. FEB. 20, 2017. More on NYTimes.com. Advertisement. The first chapter from Walt Whitman's recently discovered novel, as published in The Walt...
About Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. 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.
