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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
Contributor:
Turpin, Zachary, writer of introduction.
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.
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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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