After an individualized reading, the work is discussed in a group with the help of a moderator who makes a brief introduction to the book, asks questions, leads and encourages the debate.
About the title of the month (“The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle” and “O Captain! My captain!" by Walt Whitman):
“A novel dedicated to the New York press reader of the mid-nineteenth century, with a strong Dickensian character, but in which the great themes of the author of Leaves of Grass already emerge, especially in the last chapters. Walt Whitman leads us not only through a plot full of intrigue, bad arts and good feelings, the story of an evil lawyer and an orphan in danger, but also takes us through the streets, houses, offices, rivers and the cemeteries of a city still in formation, which would end up becoming the most iconic city in the world.”
Extracted from the House of the book.