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The Thieves' Opera : The Mesmerizing Story of Two-Notorious Criminals in Eighteenth-Century London

by Lucy Moore
RM42.01 MYR
The Thieves' Opera : The Mesmerizing Story of Two-Notorious Criminals in Eighteenth-Century London - Thryft
The Thieves' Opera : The Mesmerizing Story of Two-Notorious Criminals in Eighteenth-Century London - Thryft

The Thieves' Opera : The Mesmerizing Story of Two-Notorious Criminals in Eighteenth-Century London

by Lucy Moore
RM42.01 MYR
ISBN: 9780151003648
Authors: Lucy Moore
Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company
Date of Publication: 1998-08-13
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Biography
Goodreads rating: 3.72
(rated by 204 readers)

Description

A gem, with clear insights into popular eighteenth-century social history - TatlerGeorgian London was a city of contrasts: its bourgeois elegance and refinement thrived amidst filth and foul smells, decadence and depravity. Crime was everywhere -- from pickpockets and prostitutes in the center city to plundering highwaymen on the outskirts.Jonathan Wild came to dominate 18th-century London's criminal underworld in part by orchestrating the theft of personal goods and then offering them back to their rightful owners - at a price. The reputation and credibility of this self-styled 'Thief-Taker General' was such that in 1720 the government's Privy Council sought his advice on how to deal with the rising crime rate in England's capital city.Jack Sheppard, on the other hand, was the archetypal idle apprentice, who spent his free time drinking, gambling, and whoring in London's Covent Garden, eventually falling into a life of petty crime. When Sheppard refused to work for Wild (as every other thief was forced to do), Wild had him arrested, tried, and convicted. But his extraordinary ability to escape from prison -- repeatedly and against striking odds - made Jack Sheppard a celebrated folk hero.As popular opinion - and with it, money and power - swayed from the thief-taker to the housebreaker, tension between the two spiraled to a dramatic climax.The Thieves' Opera is an eminently readable work of popular history that blends scholarship with the best of the storyteller's art.
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