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Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard.
Author : Jordy Rosenberg
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399592288
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Confessions of the Fox written by Jordy Rosenberg and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • HuffPost • Kirkus Reviews • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award • Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent. Praise for Confessions of the Fox “A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility . . . an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes; an academic comedy spliced with period erotica; an intimate meditation on belonging.”—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “Confessions of the Fox is so goddamned good. Reading it was like an out-of-body experience. I want to run through the streets screaming about it. It should be in the personal canon of every queer and non-cis person. Read it.”—Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist for Her Body and Other Parties “A hat tip to Moby-Dick . . . a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges . . . one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.”—The New York Times Book Review “An ambitious work of metafiction, a sexy queer love story . . . a bold first novel.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sheppard is a historical romance novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard. The events of the story begin with the notorious criminal and thief-catcher Jonathan Wild encouraging Jack Sheppard's father to a life of crime. Wild once pursues Sheppard's mother, and eventually turns Sheppard's father over to the authorities, and he is soon after executed. Sheppard's mother is left alone to raise Sheppard. Paralleling these events is the story of Thames Darrell. On 26 November 1703 Darrell is removed from his immoral uncle Sir Rowland Trenchard, and is given to Mr. Wood to be raised, so both Darrell and Sheppard spend their adolescence living with Mr. Wood. Several years pass and Sheppard becomes a thief robbing various people. He and his companion Blueskin, from Jonathan Wild's group, attack the Wood's household, and Blueskin murders Mrs. Woods. This upsets Sheppard which results in his separation from Wild's group. Sheppard befriends Darrel again and spends his time trying to correct Blueskin's wrong, ingeniously escaping Wild's posse.
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard (Historical Novel) written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sheppard is a historical romance novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard. The events of the story begin with the notorious criminal and thief-catcher Jonathan Wild encouraging Jack Sheppard's father to a life of crime. Wild once pursues Sheppard's mother, and eventually turns Sheppard's father over to the authorities, and he is soon after executed. Sheppard's mother is left alone to raise Sheppard. Paralleling these events is the story of Thames Darrell. On 26 November 1703 Darrell is removed from his immoral uncle Sir Rowland Trenchard, and is given to Mr. Wood to be raised, so both Darrell and Sheppard spend their adolescence living with Mr. Wood. Several years pass and Sheppard becomes a thief robbing various people. He and his companion Blueskin, from Jonathan Wild's group, attack the Wood's household, and Blueskin murders Mrs. Woods. This upsets Sheppard which results in his separation from Wild's group. Sheppard befriends Darrel again and spends his time trying to correct Blueskin's wrong, ingeniously escaping Wild's posse.
Author : William Ainsworth
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041729549
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard. Vol. 2 written by William Ainsworth and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Ainsworth
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041824088
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard. Vol. 3 written by William Ainsworth and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lincoln Fortescue
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Jack Sheppard written by Lincoln Fortescue and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1845 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard ... With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A New Edition written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq: Jack Sheppard : a romance written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Obediah Throttle
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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Jack Sheppard written by Obediah Throttle and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard. A romance ... With illustrations by George Cruikshank. [With a portrait.] written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lincoln FORTESCUE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Jack Sheppard ... New Edition, with ... Additions. Illustrated, Etc written by Lincoln FORTESCUE and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Skirboll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493014234
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Thief-Taker Hangings written by Aaron Skirboll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England. Crime ran rampant, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes ruled the land. Execution by hanging often punished the smallest infractions, and rip-roaring stories of fearless criminals proliferated, giving birth to a new medium: the newspaper. In 1724, housebreaker Jack Sheppard—a “pocket Hercules,” his small frame packed with muscle—finally met the hangman. Street singers sang ballads about the Cockney burglar because no prison could hold him. Each more astonishing than the last, his final jailbreak took him through six successive locked rooms, after which he shimmied down two blankets from the prison roof to the street below. Just before Sheppard swung, he gave an account of his life to a writer in the crowd. Daniel Defoe stood in the shadow of the day’s literati—Swift, Pope, Gay—and had done hard time himself for sedition and bankruptcy. He saw how prison corrupted the poor. They came out thieves, but he came out a journalist. Six months later, the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders covered another death at the hanging tree. Jonathan Wild looked every bit the brute—body covered in scars from dagger, sword, and gun, bald head patched with silver plates from a fractured skull—and he had all but invented the double-cross. He cultivated young thieves, profited from their work, then turned them in for his reward—and their execution. But one man refused to play his game. Sheppard didn’t take orders from this self-proclaimed “thief-taker general,” nor would he hawk his loot through Wild’s fences. The two-faced bounty hunter took it personally and helped bring the young burglar’s life to an end. But when Wild’s charade came to light, he quickly became the most despised man in the land. When he was hanged for his own crimes, the mob wasn’t rooting for Wild as it had for Sheppard. Instead, they hurled stones, rotten food, and even dead animals at him. Defoe once again got the scoop, and tabloid journalism as we know it had begun.
Author : Jack DeSario
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387705
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial written by Jack DeSario and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new prosecutor faces an old controversy -- An unlikely setting for murder -- Did Sam murder Marilyn? -- Putting the pieces of the puzzle together -- Final trial preparation : the emergence of the prosecutor's strategy -- Opening statements : setting the stage -- The Sheppard team presents its case -- The prosecutors speak -- Closing arguments and a verdict : the end of a legal era.
Author : V. A. C. Gatrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192853325
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (533 download)
Download or read book The Hanging Tree written by V. A. C. Gatrell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd.
