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Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300150012
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590009804
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547718253
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
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066384593
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
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041729547
Author : William Ainsworth
Publisher : Litres
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041824082
Author : Lincoln Fortescue
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Fiction
ISBN : MINN:31951002085811N
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026798294
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025077400
Author : Obediah Throttle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023185937
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023999532
Author : Lincoln FORTESCUE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017465629
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Criminals
ISBN : OXFORD:300150010
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
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399592287
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 : V. A. C. Gatrell,Vic Gatrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853325
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.