Jonathan Wild
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2008
Summary
The Thieftaker General: A Satirical Chronicle of Jonathan Wild
‘He carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself did not expect to reap some Advantage.’
The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled ‘Thieftaker General’, controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199549757 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199549753 |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Author: | Henry Fielding, Claude Rawson, Linda Bree, Hugh Amory |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Henry Fielding
Claude Rawson is the author of many books, including Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress (1972), and most recently God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 (2001).
Linda Bree is the author of Sarah Fielding (1996), and the editor of Sarah Fielding’s The Adventures of David Simple (2002).
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