
History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
by Henry Fielding
- Genres: General fiction
- Languages: English
- Provider: Librivox
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This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] 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. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Chapters
34 - Book 3, Chapter 7 [Preliminary to the Marriage between Mr. Jonathan Wild and the chaste Laeticia]
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