Jack Sheppard
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Jack Sheppard

A Romance

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  1. 570 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Jack Sheppard

A Romance

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About this book

This gripping historical romance focuses on the dashing criminal Jack Sheppard, a real-life burglar whose bold, brazen crimes and remarkable escape attempts captivated England in the eighteenth century. Though Sheppard's exploits have been fictionalized in several literary works, Ainsworth's full-length novel ranks among the most popular and enduring.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. EPOCH THE FIRST - 1703 JONATHAN WILD
  4. Chapter I - The Widow and Her Child
  5. Chapter II - The Old Mint
  6. Chapter III - The Master of the Mint
  7. Chapter IV - The Roof and the Window
  8. Chapter V - The Denunciation
  9. Chapter VI - The Storm
  10. Chapter VII - Old London Bridge
  11. EPOCH THE SECOND - 1715 THAMES DARRELL
  12. Chapter I - The Idle Apprentice
  13. Chapter II - Thames Darrell
  14. Chapter III - The Jacobite
  15. Chapter IV - Mr. Kneebone and His Friends
  16. Chapter V - Hawk and Buzzard
  17. Chapter VI - The First Step Towards the Ladder
  18. Chapter VII - Brother and Sister
  19. Chapter VIII - Miching Mallecho
  20. Chapter IX - Consequences of the Theft
  21. Chapter X - Mother and Son
  22. Chapter XI - The Mohocks
  23. Chapter XII - Saint Giles's Round-House
  24. Chapter XIII - The Magdalene
  25. Chapter XIV - The Flash Ken
  26. Chapter XV - The Robbery in Willesden Church
  27. Chapter XVI - Jonathan Wild's House in the Old Bailey
  28. Chapter XVII - The Night-Cellar
  29. Chapter XVIII - How Jack Sheppard Broke Out of the Cage at Willesden
  30. Chapter XIX - Good and Evil
  31. EPOCH THE THIRD - 1724 THE PRISON-BREAKER
  32. Chapter I - The Return
  33. Chapter II - The Burglary at Dollis Hill
  34. Chapter III - Jack Sheppard's Quarrel with Jonathan Wild
  35. Chapter IV - Jack Sheppard's Escape from the New Prison
  36. Chapter V - The Disguise
  37. Chapter VI - Winifred Receives Two Proposals
  38. Chapter VII - Jack Sheppard Warns Thames Darrell
  39. Chapter VIII - Old Bedlam
  40. Chapter IX - Old Newgate
  41. Chapter X - How Jack Sheppard Got Out of the Condemned Hold
  42. Chapter XI - Dollis Hill Revisited
  43. Chapter XII - The Well Hole
  44. Chapter XIII - The Supper at Mr. Kneebone's
  45. Chapter XIV - How Jack Sheppard was Again Captured
  46. Chapter XV - How Blueskin Underwent the Peine Forte et Dure
  47. Chapter XVI - How Jack Sheppard's Portrait was Painted
  48. Chapter XVII - The Iron Bar
  49. Chapter XVIII - The Red Room
  50. Chapter XIX - The Chapel
  51. Chapter XX - The Leads
  52. Chapter XXI - What Befell Jack Sheppard in the Turner's House
  53. Chapter XXII - Fast and Loose
  54. Chapter XXIII - The Last Meeting Between Jack Sheppard and His Mother
  55. Chapter XXIV - The Pursuit
  56. Chapter XXV - How Jack Sheppard Got Rid of His Irons
  57. Chapter XXVI - How Jack Sheppard Attended His Mother's Funeral
  58. Chapter XXVII - How Jack Sheppard was Brought Back to Newgate
  59. Chapter XXVIII - What Happened at Dollis Hill
  60. Chapter XXIX - How Jack Sheppard was Taken to Westminster Hall
  61. Chapter XXX - How Jonathan Wild's House was Burnt Down
  62. Chapter XXXI - The Procession to Tyburn
  63. Chapter XXXII - The Closing Scene
  64. Endnotes