The Thieves' Opera (The Riveting True Story of 18th-Century London's Most Notorious and Active Criminals)

Moore, Lucy

ISBN 10: 0156006405 / ISBN 13: 9780156006408

Published by Harvest / Harcourt, New York, 2000

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8vo, 304 pp.

Seller Inventory # 105909

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Thieves' Opera (The Riveting True Story of 18th-Century London's Most Notorious and Active Criminals)
• Publisher: Harvest / Harcourt, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156006405
• ISBN 13: 9780156006408
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History

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Synopsis

Georgian Court London is revealed here in all its elegance and squalid filth through the filter of its criminal underground, a world ruled by Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard. Reprint.

About the Author

Lucy Moore (born 1970) is a historian and writer. Lucy Moore was born in 1970. She was educated in Britain and the United States and studied history at Edinburgh University. In the 1990s, her parents lived in Mumbai, India. She spent some time visiting them in India, which led to her book Maharanis about Indian princesses