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The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding. It was published in 1743 in Fielding's Miscellanies, third volume.

The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding. It is an experiment in the various narrative genres that were popular at the time: serious history, criminal biography, political satire, and picaresque novel.

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02:50:23 - 56 - 56 - Book 4, Chapter 15. This novel is sometimes thought of as first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman

The Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild, got out with characteristic commercial energy by Defoe, soon . That Jonathan Wild is for the most part a magnificent example of sustained irony, one of the best in our literature, critics have generally agreed.

The Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild, got out with characteristic commercial energy by Defoe, soon after the criminal's execution, is very different from Fielding's satirical narrative, and probably a good deal nearer the truth. Jonathan Wild was published as the third volume of the Miscellanies "by Henry Fielding, Es. which came out in the spring of 1743.

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For the modern reader, the novel is somewhat heavy-handed in its attacks on the Great and on reducing Wild to a. .

For the modern reader, the novel is somewhat heavy-handed in its attacks on the Great and on reducing Wild to a cipher for Walpole, or a Walpole-like villain. Ends of her Fingers she wore Arms, which she used with such admirable Dexterity that the hot Blood of Mr. Wild soon began to appear in several little Spots on his Face" (Rawson 29-30).

Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. This antiquarian volume contains a detailed and comprehensive biography of 'Jonathan Wild the Great' - written by Henry Fielding

Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. This antiquarian volume contains a detailed and comprehensive biography of 'Jonathan Wild the Great' - written by Henry Fielding. This fascinating, witty, and insightful biography will appeal to those with an interest in eighteenth century London, or in the seminal writings of Henry fielding. It would make for a great addition to any literary collection.

Jonathan Wild, born about 1682 and executed at Tyburn in 1725, was one of the most notorious criminals of his age. His resemblance to the hero in Fielding's satire of the same name is general rather than particular. The real Jonathan (whose legitimate business was that of a buckle maker) like Fielding's, won his fame, not as a robber himself, but as an informer, and a receiver of stolen goods

The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century.

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