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The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great By Henry Fielding

The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

By Henry Fielding

  • Release Date: 2012-06-19
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
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This book is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged.