Jack Sheppard: A Romance
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TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido: - text
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Release date is 2005-07-06
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"Jack Sheppard: A Romance" by William Harrison Ainsworth is a historical novel serially published from 1839 to 1840. Based on the life of an actual 18th-century London criminal, this Newgate novel follows young Jack Sheppard from infancy through his fate as a notorious thief. Manipulated by the vicious thief-catcher Jonathan Wild—who destroyed his father—Sheppard becomes infamous for his daring prison escapes and robberies. The tale weaves together crime, corruption, and the question of whether redemption is possible for a man caught in London's brutal underworld. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Originally published: Internationale Bibliothek G M B H Berlin, 1922
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