Jonathan Wild
The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled Thieftaker General, controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language.… Celý popis ↓
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Jonathan Wild
The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled Thieftaker General, controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places.
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, as relevant today as it ever was.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
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