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`Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times': A novel look at Walt Whitman.

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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20070912
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Byline: Carlin Romano

"Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times" by Walt Whitman, edited by Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler; Duke University Press ($21.95)

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Walt Whitman, novelist?

Like Charles Dickens, poet, it doesn't ring a bell. It's simply true.

Even at the Walt Whitman House in Camden, N.J., the writer's home for the last years of his life and one of the literary treasures of our area, curator Leo Blake says few Whitmanophiles ever mention their hero's one novel _ visitors not focused on his poetry usually turn out to be ...

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