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Jonathan Wild - Claude Julien Rawson, Linda Bree, Henry Fielding, Hugh Amory
Jonathan Wild
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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 his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and... show more
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 his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human "greatness" and "goodness", as relevant today as it ever was.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780192804082 (0192804081)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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thebookcoop
thebookcoop rated it
2.5 but I'm being generous because at least it was interesting and I like Henry Fielding.
Victoria Vane
Victoria Vane rated it
Began, but temporarily put aside. Intend to finish after some other books..
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