Jack Sheppard
By: William Harrison Ainsworth
Series: Victorian bestsellers -- 3; Victorian bestsellers -- 3.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780141191898
Subjects: Criminals; Fiction; Social conditions
Description: A master of drinking, whoring, theft and escape! While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, seems eager to cheat him out of an honest living, when Jack begins visiting the notorious Black Lion, drinking den of the worst criminals in London.