Project Gutenberg 2005-07-06 Public domain in the USA. 418 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 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sheppard_(novel) 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.) Reading ease score: 73.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en England -- Fiction Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724 -- Fiction Thieves -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Historical Novels Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: British Literature 1014718 2025-06-07T06:25:43.785104 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 606001 2025-06-07T06:26:02.863003 application/epub+zip 617259 2025-06-07T06:25:49.115091 application/epub+zip 487294 2025-06-07T06:25:46.739065 application/epub+zip 1170047 2025-06-07T06:26:13.003956 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1088879 2025-06-07T06:26:00.550024 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 755355 2022-09-08T04:07:13.711390 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 934594 2025-06-07T06:25:40.187128 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 21531 2025-06-07T06:26:13.191935 application/rdf+xml 13889 2025-06-07T06:25:47.361082 image/jpeg 3636 2025-06-07T06:25:47.050079 image/jpeg 613337 2025-06-07T06:25:43.894111 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia