Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: London : Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: London : Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The history of the life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Author: Henry FieldingThe History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great
Author: Henry FieldingJonathan Wild
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192804082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
'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 his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connectionsbetween his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Henry 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'.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This famous work tells the satiric biographical story of an early 18th-century underworld boss, Jonathan Wild. He used to capture criminals to get a reward, but he made a profit from operating an underground network of offenders who paid him to avoid being sentenced. In addition, it features a romantic story related to Wild. Fielding satirized various aspects of English society during his time through this book.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Author: Henry FieldingThe Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Celebrated Thief-taker: Containing a Complete History of this Notorious Character ... Interspersed Throughout with Many Anecdotes
Author: Jonathan WildThief-Taker General
Author: Gerald HowsonPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412839884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The historical literature of political deviance is sparse. This unusual work, chronicling the history of Jonathan Wild, represents an effort to come to terms with one of the more amazing characters of English social history. Wild was both part of the policy system in eighteenth-century England, and also one of the most adroit criminals of the age. In the 1720s, London suffered the worst crime waves in its history. Civic corruption took place on a staggering scale. The government's answer was to pay a bounty for the capture of robbers, thus creating a class of professional informers. Wild was applauded as the most efficient thief hunter and gang breaker in British society; but his own posse of thief catchers was basically a front behind which he was able to control the underground world, through a complex system of blackmail, perjury, and terror which the book details. All who opposed him were betrayed to the law, and in the struggle for power Wild sacrificed several hundred of his own people to the hangman. No one since his time, with the exception of Lavrenti Beria of the late Stalin era GPU so nearly succeeded in bringing the underworld under the control of one system of power. At one level, this is a biography of the world's first supercriminal. At another, it is a sociology of criminal behavior and its political consequences. Howson sheds fresh light, not only on a figure who has become famous in literature, but more important, on the entire structure of gang life. The book is written "as a "terrifying and fascinating study of a historical epoch; it also offers a completely fresh picture of the birth of modern organized-crime families as part of modern organized political systems.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781290906395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author: Henry Fielding