Download 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 AudioBook Free
In 1852, young Walt Whitman - a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn - was hard at the job writing two literature. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Lawn. The other, a book, would be posted under a pseudonym and serialized in a magazine. A short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and excitement in NEW YORK, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle seemed to little fanfare. Then it vanished. No-one laid eyes onto it until 2016, when literary scholar Zachary Turpin, at the University of Houston, followed a paper trail deep into the Library of Congress, where in fact the sole surviving copy of Jack Engle has lain looking forward to decades. Now, after more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press is honored to republish this lost work, repairing a missing little bit of American literature by one of the world's greatest writers, written as he verged on immortality.
