poetry by H B - The General

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Henry Fielding - The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild The Great, Folio Society, 1966 furniture poetry by H B -Henry Fielding The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild The Great, Folio Society, 1966 With Wood Engravings by Frank Martin. A powerful satirical novel, first published in 1743 in his Miscellanies. The book is a mock biography based on the real life London gang leader and "Thief Taker General" Jonathan Wild who manipulated the legal system to run a massive underworld empire until he was hanged in 1725. Fielding uses Wild's life as a brutal allegory to attack