Foreign Languages Publishing

poetry by H B - The General

Tanning to dust jacket with bumps and tear

Weight  417g

Tear to top of front spine

Henry Fielding - The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild The Great, Folio Society, 1966 furniture Foreign Languages PublishingHenry 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