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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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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.
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)
334 ratings66 reviews. 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.
14 mar 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.
