Jack Sheppard: A RomanceThe Floating Press, 1.3.2012 - 570 sivua This gripping historical romance focuses on the dashing criminal Jack Sheppard, a real-life burglar whose bold, brazen crimes and remarkable escape attempts captivated England in the eighteenth century. Though Sheppard's exploits have been fictionalized in several literary works, Ainsworth's full-length novel ranks among the most popular and enduring. |
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Chapter VI The Storm | 72 |
Chapter VII Old London Bridge | 86 |
EPOCH THE SECOND 1715 THAMES DARRELL | 95 |
Chapter IV Jack Sheppards Escape from the New Prison | 334 |
Chapter V The Disguise | 338 |
Chapter VI Winifred Receives Two Proposals | 361 |
Chapter VII Jack Sheppard Warns Thames Darrell | 369 |
Chapter VIII Old Bedlam | 380 |
Chapter IX Old Newgate | 394 |
Chapter X How Jack Sheppard Got Out of the Condemned Hold | 403 |
Chapter XI Dollis Hill Revisited | 423 |
Chapter I The Idle Apprentice | 96 |
Chapter II Thames Darrell | 112 |
Chapter III The Jacobite | 122 |
Chapter IV Mr Kneebone and His Friends | 126 |
Chapter V Hawk and Buzzard | 131 |
Chapter VI The First Step Towards the Ladder | 154 |
Chapter VII Brother and Sister | 170 |
Chapter VIII Miching Mallecho | 177 |
Chapter IX Consequences of the Theft | 193 |
Chapter X Mother and Son | 203 |
Chapter XI The Mohocks | 212 |
Chapter XII Saint Giless RoundHouse | 222 |
Chapter XIII The Magdalene | 235 |
Chapter XIV The Flash Ken | 252 |
Chapter XV The Robbery in Willesden Church | 261 |
Chapter XVI Jonathan Wilds House in the Old Bailey | 265 |
Chapter XVII The NightCellar | 277 |
Chapter XVIII How Jack Sheppard Broke Out of the Cage at Willesden | 287 |
Chapter XIX Good and Evil | 294 |
EPOCH THE THIRD 1724 THE PRISONBREAKER | 298 |
Chapter I The Return | 299 |
Chapter II The Burglary at Dollis Hill | 322 |
Chapter III Jack Sheppards Quarrel with Jonathan Wild | 328 |
Chapter XII The Well Hole | 440 |
Chapter XIII The Supper at Mr Kneebones | 452 |
Chapter XIV How Jack Sheppard was Again Captured | 481 |
Chapter XV How Blueskin Underwent the Peine Forte et Dure | 495 |
Chapter XVI How Jack Sheppards Portrait was Painted | 505 |
Chapter XVII The Iron Bar | 522 |
Chapter XVIII The Red Room | 526 |
Chapter XIX The Chapel | 528 |
Chapter XX The Leads | 532 |
Chapter XXI What Befell Jack Sheppard in the Turners House | 537 |
Chapter XXII Fast and Loose | 546 |
Chapter XXIII The Last Meeting Between Jack Sheppard and His Mother | 552 |
Chapter XXIV The Pursuit | 561 |
Chapter XXV How Jack Sheppard Got Rid of His Irons | 566 |
Chapter XXVI How Jack Sheppard Attended His Mothers Funeral | 574 |
Chapter XXVII How Jack Sheppard was Brought Back to Newgate | 582 |
Chapter XXVIII What Happened at Dollis Hill | 592 |
Chapter XXIX How Jack Sheppard was Taken to Westminster Hall | 600 |
Chapter XXX How Jonathan Wilds House was Burnt Down | 605 |
Chapter XXXI The Procession to Tyburn | 610 |
Chapter XXXII The Closing Scene | 622 |
Endnotes | 626 |
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added alarm answered appeared arms asked Austin better Blueskin Caliban Captain carpenter Charcam child cried Jack cried Thames dark dear difficulty Dollis Hill door Edgeworth Bess ejaculated escape exclaimed eyes father fear figure find fine fingers first fixed flight floor followed glance hand head hear heard Hogarth inquired instantly Ireton iron Jack Sheppard Jack's Jackson janizaries Jonathan Wild Kettleby Lady Trafford laugh look Maggot master mother murdered never Newgate night observed Old Bailey perceived person pistol poor prisoner proceeded Quilt Arnold rejoined Jonathan replied Jack replied Jonathan replied Kneebone replied Sheppard replied Thames replied Wild replied Wood Saint Giles scarcely Shotbolt shouted Sir Rowland soon speedily Spurling stairs sufficient sword tell Thames Darrell there's thief-taker Tom Sheppard tone turned turnkey Tyburn uttered voice wall widow Wild's Willesden Winifred Wood's woollen-draper Wych Street Zounds