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A fictionalized biography of an infamous English criminal satirizes the quest for greatness
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Signet/New American Library, 1962
ISBN 10: 0451510690
ISBN 13: 9780451510693
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. New York. 1962. January 1962. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451510690. Foreword by J. H. Plumb. 222 pages. paperback. CY1069. Cover art: Milton Glaser. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback England Literature 18th Century. DESCRIPTION - The outrages that Jonathan Wild commits against the simple, virtuous Heartfree epitomize one of the most villainous but memorably comic figures in literature. Wild is methodically evil: his thefts and vices, violence and grand deceptions, are merely steppingstones in his progress toward 'greatness.' In writing about this sublime blackguard, Henry Fielding drew on his knowledge of London's Gin Lane, where he served as magistrate, on legends surrounding an actual archcriminal, and on the figure of the King's minister, Sir Robert Walpole, that nemesis whom Pope, Swift, and Gay lampooned in their greatest works. Jonathan Wild is perhaps the Enlightenment's most ironic pageant of corruption -the book in which Fielding's dormant theme that 'greatness' and 'goodness' have no part in each other gleams with polished bitterness and gallows humor. inventory #29652. Seller Inventory # z29652