Project Gutenberg 2014-03-18 Public domain in the USA. 442 Hapgood, Hutchins 1869 1944 03013389 The Autobiography of a Thief Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Autobiography of a Thief" by Hutchins Hapgood is a semi-autobiographical account composed in the early 20th century. This work encapsulates the gritty reality of a life of crime through the eyes of its main character, Jim, an ex-thief who reflects on his past of pickpocketing and burglaries, explaining the circumstances that led him into a life of crime and his subsequent quest for redemption. At the start of the narrative, Jim introduces himself as a seasoned thief, recounting his boyhood in New York City wherein he was drawn into a life of crime due to poverty and the allure of the underworld. He describes his initial thefts as a young child under the influence of older boys and how, through various escapades, he developed into a clever pickpocket. The opening portion also hints at the internal conflicts he faces as he recognizes the futility of his choices and experiences the consequences of his criminal lifestyle, setting the stage for a story of self-discovery and the moral dilemmas faced by those caught in the cycle of crime. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45169/45169-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 77.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Thieves Hapgood, Hutchins, 1869-1944 HV Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Biographies Category: Novels Category: American Literature 447830 2025-09-18T09:39:32.292169 text/html 430948 2024-10-24T03:57:59 text/html 276217 2025-09-18T09:39:37.455129 application/epub+zip 278463 2025-09-18T09:39:33.112223 application/epub+zip 246847 2025-09-18T09:39:32.700209 application/epub+zip 401334 2025-09-18T09:39:41.053142 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 359731 2025-09-18T09:39:36.881160 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 328410 2022-09-20T15:41:25.989035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 407707 2025-09-18T09:39:31.857197 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 387761 2024-10-24T03:57:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16927 2025-09-18T09:39:41.187144 application/rdf+xml 15329 2025-09-18T09:39:32.779150 image/jpeg 2208 2025-09-18T09:39:32.740169 image/jpeg 254925 2025-09-18T09:39:32.332180 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