{"product_id":"9781609385101","title":"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","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eLife and Adventures of Jack Engle\u003c\/i\u003e appeared to little fanfare.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then it disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJack Engle\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055599763696,"sku":"9781609385101","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609385101_p0.jpg?v=1763841390","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609385101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}