Jack Sheppard
A master of drinking, whoring, theft - and escape! While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, seems eager to cheat him out of an honest living, when Jack begins visiting the notorious Black Lion, drinking den...
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A master of drinking, whoring, theft - and escape! While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, seems eager to cheat him out of an honest living, when Jack begins visiting the notorious Black Lion, drinking den of the worst criminals in London. Soon he is one of the most famous scoundrels in the city - not for his crimes, but for the wonderful fact that not one of the King's fine prisons can hold him. But Jack's luck will have to run out eventually...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141191898 (0141191899)
Publish date: 2010-01-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1984:]. This is a markedly less "historianly" novel than others of Ainsworth that I've read lately. To balance Jack's untimely end, Ainsworth puts in a purely fictional noble-born hero, Thames Darrell. But Jack, too, proves to be part of the same family, and while at one ...
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