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by Henry Fielding
| Paperback in Vey Good condition. No nicks, tears or creases. Lengthy inscription on first page, in ink.
First published 1743.
Published in Penguin Books 1982.
Edited by David Nokes.
288 pages.
11.2cm x 18.1cm x 1.5cm.
Weight: 175gms.
Cover price: £1.95.
The cover shows a detail from 'The Arrest' by William Hogarth.
Henry Fielding - Born: 22nd April 1707, Sharpham, Somerset. - Died: 8th October 1754 (47), Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal. Pen name: 'Captain Hercules Vinegar', 'H. Scriblerus Secundus', also some works published anonymously. Occupation: Novelist, dramatist and magistrate.
First published in Fielding's 'Miscellanies' in 1743, 'Jonathan Wild' bears little relation to the historical 'Thief-taker General' hanged at Tyburn in 1725.
Fielding's story is rather a moral satire on the true nature of 'greatness' when it is not legitimized by political institutions or worldly eminence. In it he draws close parallels with the Walpole administration as he relates the tale of the most notorious criminal of his generation - gang-leader, receiver, blackmailer and protection-racketeer - all the while parading the 'greatness' of his hero even unto the gallows.
This edition also contains Daniel Defoe's 'The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Action of the Late Jonathan Wild', which purports to be an authoritative account of the real Wild.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140431519
Condition: Very Good |
1982
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