Jack Sheppard

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Penguin UK, 28.1.2010 - 544 sivua

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...

 

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EPOCH THE FIRST 1703 Jonathan Wild I The Widow and her Child
The Old Mint
The Master of the Mint
The Roof and the Window
The Denunciation
The Storm
Old London Bridge
EPOCH THE SECOND 1715
Thames Darrell I The Idle Apprentice II Thames Darrell
The Jacobite
Mr Kneebone and his Friends
Hawk and Buzzard
The First Step Towards the Ladder
Brother and Sister
Miching Mallecho
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William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession had 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. Bears 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 appearing in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882

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OtsikkoJack Sheppard
Nide 3 / Victorian bestsellers
KirjoittajaWilliam Harrison Ainsworth
KustantajaPenguin UK, 2010
ISBN0141932953, 9780141932958
Pituus544 sivua
  
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