Life and adventures of Jack Engle: an auto-biography

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.

שנה

2017

שפה

English

סדרה

The Iowa Whitman series

הוצאה

University of Iowa Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

156

ISBN

9781609385125

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata