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Title: Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
Subtitle: An Auto-Biography; a Story of New York at the Present Time in Which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters
Author: Walt Whitman, Zachary Turpin - introduction
Narrator: Jon Hamm
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-30-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's 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. 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, at the 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 republish this lost work, restoring a missing piece of American literature by one of the world's greatest authors, written as he verged on immortality.

Members Reviews:
Whitman at his best
I thoroughly enjoyed the words as written by Walt Whitman and the words as spoken by Jon Hamm. The narrative has not lost its relevance in the passage of 160+ years. I also was entranced by the afterword by Zachary Turpin and thank him for his scholarship and persistence in restoring Jack Engle to life.