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The book tells the satiric biographical story of an early 18th-century underworld boss, Jonathan Wild, from his birth in 1682 until his execution in 1725. As a thief-taker, Wild's job was to capture criminals and take them to the authorities in order to collect a reward, but he made notorious profit from managing an underground ...
Here, narrating the life of a notorious criminal of the day, Fielding satirizes human greatness, or rather human greatness confused with power over others. Permanently topical, Jonathan Wild, with the exception of some passages by his older…
Mr. Jonathan Wild, or Wyld, then (for he himself did not always agree in one method of spelling his name), was descended from the great Wolfstan Wild, who came over with Hengist, and distinguished himself very eminently at that famous festival, where the Britons were so treacherously murdered by the Saxons; for when the word was given, i.e. Nemet eour Saxes, take out your swords, this ...
In 1743, Henry Fielding's The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great appeared in the third volume of Miscellanies. Fielding is merciless in his attack on Walpole. In his work, Wild stands in for Walpole directly, and, in particular, he invokes the Walpolean language of the "Great Man".
20 de mai. de 2024 · Jonathan Wild (born c. 1682, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Eng.—died May 24, 1725, London) was a master English criminal of early 18th-century London, leader of thieves and highwaymen, extortionist, and fence for stolen goods. Married while in his teens, Wild at about the age of 21 deserted his wife and child for the life of London ...
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A short novel by H. Fielding, published as the third volume of his Miscellanies, 1743, based on the life of a notorious thief‐taker, Jonathan Wild, who was hanged in 1725. Fielding's hatred of hypocrisy here finds its most mordant expression.
Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human 'greatness' and 'goodness'. 174 pages, Paperback.
