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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
- Title
- Contents
- EPOCH THE FIRST - 1703 JONATHAN WILD
- Chapter I - The Widow and Her Child
- Chapter II - The Old Mint
- Chapter III - The Master of the Mint
- Chapter IV - The Roof and the Window
- Chapter V - The Denunciation
- Chapter VI - The Storm
- Chapter VII - Old London Bridge
- EPOCH THE SECOND - 1715 THAMES DARRELL
- Chapter I - The Idle Apprentice
- Chapter II - Thames Darrell
- Chapter III - The Jacobite
- Chapter IV - Mr. Kneebone and His Friends
- Chapter V - Hawk and Buzzard
- Chapter VI - The First Step Towards the Ladder
- Chapter VII - Brother and Sister
- Chapter VIII - Miching Mallecho
- Chapter IX - Consequences of the Theft
- Chapter X - Mother and Son
- Chapter XI - The Mohocks
- Chapter XII - Saint Giles's Round-House
- Chapter XIII - The Magdalene
- Chapter XIV - The Flash Ken
- Chapter XV - The Robbery in Willesden Church
- Chapter XVI - Jonathan Wild's House in the Old Bailey
- Chapter XVII - The Night-Cellar
- Chapter XVIII - How Jack Sheppard Broke Out of the Cage at Willesden
- Chapter XIX - Good and Evil
- EPOCH THE THIRD - 1724 THE PRISON-BREAKER
- Chapter I - The Return
- Chapter II - The Burglary at Dollis Hill
- Chapter III - Jack Sheppard's Quarrel with Jonathan Wild
- Chapter IV - Jack Sheppard's Escape from the New Prison
- Chapter V - The Disguise
- Chapter VI - Winifred Receives Two Proposals
- Chapter VII - Jack Sheppard Warns Thames Darrell
- Chapter VIII - Old Bedlam
- Chapter IX - Old Newgate
- Chapter X - How Jack Sheppard Got Out of the Condemned Hold
- Chapter XI - Dollis Hill Revisited
- Chapter XII - The Well Hole
- Chapter XIII - The Supper at Mr. Kneebone's
- Chapter XIV - How Jack Sheppard was Again Captured
- Chapter XV - How Blueskin Underwent the Peine Forte et Dure
- Chapter XVI - How Jack Sheppard's Portrait was Painted
- Chapter XVII - The Iron Bar
- Chapter XVIII - The Red Room
- Chapter XIX - The Chapel
- Chapter XX - The Leads
- Chapter XXI - What Befell Jack Sheppard in the Turner's House
- Chapter XXII - Fast and Loose
- Chapter XXIII - The Last Meeting Between Jack Sheppard and His Mother
- Chapter XXIV - The Pursuit
- Chapter XXV - How Jack Sheppard Got Rid of His Irons
- Chapter XXVI - How Jack Sheppard Attended His Mother's Funeral
- Chapter XXVII - How Jack Sheppard was Brought Back to Newgate
- Chapter XXVIII - What Happened at Dollis Hill
- Chapter XXIX - How Jack Sheppard was Taken to Westminster Hall
- Chapter XXX - How Jonathan Wild's House was Burnt Down
- Chapter XXXI - The Procession to Tyburn
- Chapter XXXII - The Closing Scene
- Endnotes
