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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

By Walt Whitman
Read by Jon Hamm
Afterword by Zachary Turpin

By Walt Whitman
Read by Jon Hamm
Afterword by Zachary Turpin

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May 30, 2017 | 235 Minutes

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle by Walt Whitman
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May 30, 2017 | ISBN 9780525526780 | 235 Minutes

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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. 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.


Read by Jon Hamm, with an afterword written and read by Zachary Turpin

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About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, near Huntington, Long Island, New York. His father–a farmer turned carpenter from whom Whitman acquired his freethinking intellectual and political attitudes–moved his wife and nine children to Brooklyn in 1823. The young… More about Walt Whitman

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Category: Literary Fiction | Mystery & Suspense | Audiobooks

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Published by Random House Audio
May 30, 2017 | 235 Minutes | ISBN 9780525526780
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