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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 : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522728498
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard. The story is divided into three parts, called "epochs." The "Jonathan Wild" epoch comes first. The events of the story begins with the notorious criminal and thief-catcher Jonathan Wild encouraging Jack Sheppard's father to a life of crime.
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494370046
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard (a Romance) written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard.
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146560393X
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard: A Romance (Complete) written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of eleven, the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure quarter of the Borough of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was opened; and a man, with a lantern in his hand, appeared at the threshold. This person, whose age might be about forty, was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees; black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes, wooden heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles. He wore a three-cornered hat, a sandy-coloured scratch wig, and had a thick woollen wrapper folded round his throat. His clothes had evidently seen some service, and were plentifully begrimed with the dust of the workshop. Still he had a decent look, and decidedly the air of one well-to-do in the world. In stature, he was short and stumpy; in person, corpulent; and in countenance, sleek, snub-nosed, and demure. Immediately behind this individual, came a pale, poverty-stricken woman, whose forlorn aspect contrasted strongly with his plump and comfortable physiognomy. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. Notwithstanding her emaciation, her features still retained something of a pleasing expression, and might have been termed beautiful, had it not been for that repulsive freshness of lip denoting the habitual dram-drinker; a freshness in her case rendered the more shocking from the almost livid hue of the rest of her complexion. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. Checking an ominous cough, that, ever and anon, convulsed her lungs, the poor woman addressed a few parting words to her companion, who lingered at the doorway as if he had something on his mind, which he did not very well know how to communicate.
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
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Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 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 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141191899
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of drinking, whoring, theft � and escape! While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, seems eager to cheat him out of an honest living, when Jack begins visiting the notorious Black Lion, drinking den of the worst criminals in London. Soon he is one of the most famous scoundrels in the city � not for his crimes, but for the wonderful fact that not one of the King�s fine prisons can hold him. But Jack�s luck will have to run out eventually�
Author : Valerie Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000437922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century written by Valerie Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four volume collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The volumes explore the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries, and letters, drama criticism, the periodical and newspaper press, and criticism written by women. This collection will be of great interest to students of literary history.
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
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Author : W. Harrison Ainsworth
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard, Vol. 1 (Esprios Classics) written by W. Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530923977
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard a Romance Complete written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357233105
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : W. Harrison Ainsworth
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard, Vol. 2 (Esprios Classics) written by W. Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340781484
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Cruikshank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337501648
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard written by George Cruikshank and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781794541399
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Jack Sheppard: A Romance: Novel written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard.Plot summaryThe story is divided into three parts called "epochs." The "Jonathan Wild" epoch comes first. 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, a mere infant at the time.[3]Paralleling these events is the story of Thames Darrell. On 26 November 1703, the date of the first section, Darrell is removed from his immoral uncle Sir Rowland Trenchard, and is given to Mr. Wood to be raised.[4]The third epoch takes place in 1724 and spans six months. Sheppard is a thief who spends his time robbing various people. He and Blueskin rob the Wood's household, when Blueskin murders Mrs. Woods. This upsets Sheppard and results in his separation from Wild's group. Sheppard befriends Thames again and spends his time trying to correct Blueskin's wrong...William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles, and to his daughter, who became Ainsworth's wife.Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882.Early lifeAinsworth was born on 4 February 1805 in the family house at 21 King Street, Manchester, to Thomas Ainsworth, a prominent Manchester lawyer, and Ann (Harrison) Ainsworth, the daughter of the Rev. Ralph Harrison, the Unitarian minister at Manchester Cross Street Chapel. On 4 October 1806, Ainsworth's brother, Thomas Gilbert Ainsworth, was born. Although the family home was eventually destroyed, it was a three-storey Georgian home in a well-to-do community. The area influenced Ainsworth with its historical and romantic atmosphere, which existed until the community was later replaced by commercial buildings. Besides the community, Ainsworth read romantic works as a child and enjoyed stories dealing with either adventure or supernatural themes. Of these, Dick Turpin was a favourite of Ainsworth. During his childhood, he adopted Jacobean ideas and held Tory ideas in addition to his Jacobite sympathies, even though his community was strict Whig and Nonconformist. During this time, Ainsworth began to write prolifically.
Author : Jake Arnott
Publisher : Sceptre
ISBN 13 : 1473637775
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Fatal Tree written by Jake Arnott and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London: Cruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain. What matters now is her survival of it. In that dangerous underworld known in thieves' cant as Romeville, she will learn new tricks and trades. And all begins with her fateful meeting, that very first night, with the corrupt thief-taker general Jonathan Wild. But it is the infamous gaol-breaker, Jack Sheppard, who will lay Romeville at her feet . . . Drawing on the true story that mesmerised eighteenth-century society, the acclaimed author of The Long Firm delivers a tour de force: a riveting, artful tale of crime and rough justice, love and betrayal. Rich in the street slang of the era, it vividly conjures up a murky world of illicit dens and molly-houses; a world where life was lived on the edge, in the shadow of that fatal tree - the gallows. Includes a glossary.
