Project Gutenberg 2005-07-06 Public domain in the USA. 148 Ainsworth, William Harrison 1805 1882 Ainsworth, W. Harrison (William Harrison) Ainsworth, W. H. (William Harrison) Ainsworth, Harrison Ainworth, W. Harrison (William Harrison) Ticheburn, Cheviot Jack Sheppard: A Romance Internationale Bibliothek G M B H Berlin 1922 Produced by Jason Isbell, Ben Beasley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Jack Sheppard: A Romance" by William Harrison Ainsworth is a historical novel written in the early 19th century. The story is set in the early 1700s and follows the life of Jack Sheppard, a notorious housebreaker and prison-breaker, whose adventures revolve around themes of crime, twin hardships of poverty and despair, and the consequences of a life lived outside the law. The opening introduces a series of characters, particularly focusing on Mrs. Sheppard, Jack's mother, who is struggling with the aftermath of her husband's execution. At the start of the narrative, we encounter Mrs. Sheppard in a dire living situation, struggling to support herself and her infant son while reflecting on her husband's disgraceful end. A carpenter named Mr. Wood offers her kindness, prompting an emotional discussion about her lost husband and the child's uncertain future. The scene sets the tone for the novel’s exploration of social issues, poverty, and fate, establishing a backdrop of criminality that pervades the story. The tension rises as the interactions suggest an underlying network of crime and survival in the harsh realities of life for those living in the margins of society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en England -- Fiction Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724 -- Fiction Thieves -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 1014591 1014602 2024-09-07T08:32:59.169468 2023-09-07T10:06:02.800320 text/html text/html 1082104 2020-12-11T20:10:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 536174 2020-12-11T20:10:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 582504 2024-09-07T08:33:15.691398 application/epub+zip 594029 2024-09-07T08:33:02.509424 application/epub+zip 475428 2024-09-07T08:33:00.647450 application/epub+zip 1130611 2024-09-07T08:33:25.482905 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1049481 2024-09-07T08:33:13.640399 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 755355 2022-09-08T04:07:13.711390 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 934594 934494 2024-09-07T08:32:55.402566 2023-09-07T10:05:59.433242 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 934305 2020-12-11T20:10:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 360563 2020-12-11T20:10:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 934297 2020-12-11T20:10:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 360529 2020-12-11T20:10:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21122 2024-09-07T08:33:25.654822 application/rdf+xml 13928 2024-09-07T08:33:01.046446 image/jpeg 3648 2024-09-07T08:33:00.846427 image/jpeg 592140 2024-09-07T08:32:59.276438 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia