Memoirs of the Life and Times, of the Famous Jonathan Wild, Together with the History and Lives, of Modern Rogues, Several of 'em His Acquaintance, that Have Been Executed Before and Since His Death, for the High-say, Pad, Shoplifting, Houses-breaking, Picking of Pockets, and Impudent Robbing in the Streets, and at Court. Never Before Made Publick. Intermixt with Strange Discoveries of Several Unheard of Barbarous Murders


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Gay's Beggar's Opera


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English Biography in the Eighteenth Century


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The growth and maturity of life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.