Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Life of Jonathan Wilde
Author: Henry FieldingThe Life of Jonathan Wilde
Author: 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 Life of Jonathan Wilde, Thief-taker General of Great-Britain and Ireland, Etc
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 Wilde the Great and Articles in the Champion
Author: Henry FieldingThe Life of Jonathan Wild, from His Birth to His Death
Author: Daniel DefoeThe History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild
Author: Henry FieldingThe Life of Jonathan Wild, from His Birth to His Death. Containing His Rise and Progress in Roguery; ... the Second Edition. by H. D. Late Clerk to Justice -
Author: H D.Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385291238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177908 Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Crossley, Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions. London: printed for T. Warner, 1725. viii,79, [1]p.: ill.; 8°
The Life of Jonathan Wild
Author: H. D.Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720907626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The life of Jonathan Wild: from his birth to his death. Containing his rise and progress in roguery By H. D. Excerpt from The Life of Jonathan Wild, From His Birth to His Death: Containing His Rise and Progress in Roguery; His First Acquaintance With Thieves; By What Arts He Made Himself Their Head, or Governor; His Disciple Over Them; His Policy and Great Cunning in Governing Them; And the Several Classes of Thieves Under His Co At the ufual Age, when young yondtlmn had been infirué'ted to a moderate degree of Learning, fuch as Writing and Accounts, he was put Prentice to a Buckle maker, whom he ferv' d feven Years honeftly enough; when ihat Time was expired, he carry'd on a little peddling Bufinefs himfelf in the fame Way; burl-yéndi'bfln Lwanted Application, which is generally obferv'd to be the Fault of Men of brisk Parts: Work and he were too much at Variance for him 'to' thrive' by his Trade; he feem'd, to follow it only'at a Diftance, often playing the L'oofe, wandering from one Ale houfe to another, with the. Very worfi, tho' the married Company in the Place, and was particularly fond gt the {trolling Aé'tors that now and then frequented that Countr We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.