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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 / Walt Whitman, introduction by Zachary Turpin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Series:
- Iowa Whitman series.
- The Iowa Whitman series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60938-511-X
- OCLC:
- 970693688
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