The life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

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The life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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The life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

Henry Fielding
Edition year 1966
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Frank Martin
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 186
Dimensions 22.7 × 14.7 cm

Edition details

The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, by Henry Fielding. 22 wood-engravings by Frank Martin. Bound in white linen blocked with a brown pattern. Black leather spine label. Grey OR red slipcase. 186pp. 22.7x14.7cm.

About the book

Henry Fielding's The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great is a satirical novel inspired by the notorious eighteenth-century criminal Jonathan Wild. By repeatedly describing a thief, informer and manipulator in the language normally reserved for political and military greatness, Fielding exposes the moral absurdity of equating success with virtue. The book combines criminal biography, irony and political satire in a darkly comic attack on corruption and false heroism.

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