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 - Couverture souple

Whitman, Walt

 
9781609385101: 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
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ISBN 10 : 1609385101 ISBN 13 : 9781609385101
Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2017

Synopsis

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, where the sole surviving copy of Jack Engle has lain waiting for generations. Now, after more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press is honored to reprint this lost work, restoring a missing piece of American literature by one of the world's greatest authors, written as he verged on immortality.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle : An Auto-Biography by Walt Whitman, 1852.

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. - The New York Times
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

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Éditeur
University of Iowa Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1609385101
ISBN 13 
9781609385101
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781609385125: 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

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ISBN 10 :  1609385128 ISBN 13 :  9781609385125
Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2017
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