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01 - Book 1, Chapter 1 [The achievements of Great Men]
9:48
02 - Book 1, Chapter 2 [Our Hero's Ancestors]
8:50
03 - Book 1, Chapter 3 [Birth, Parentage & Education]
11:52
04 - Book 1, Chapter 4 [Mr. Wild's First Entrance into the World]
9:23
05 - Book 1, Chapter 5 [Young Master Wild & Count La Ruse]
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06 - Book 1, Chapter 6 [Further Conferences between the Count & Master Wild]
9:31
07 - Book 1, Chapter 7 [Wild Sets Out on his Travels]
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08 - Book 1, Chapter 8 [An Astonishing Instance of Greatness]
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09 - Book 1, Chapter 9 [A Visit to Miss Letitia Snap]
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10 - Book 1, Chapter 10 [Some Matters Concerning the Chaste Laetitia]
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11 - Book 1, Chapter 11 [Notable Instances of Human Greatness]
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12 - Book 1, Chapter 12 [Other Particulars relating to Miss Tishy]
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13 - Book 1, Chapter 13 [Our Chef-D'Oeuvre]
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14 - Book 1, Chapter 14 [The History of Greatness is Continued]
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15 - Book 2, Chapter 1 [Characters of Silly People]
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16 - Book 2, Chapter 2 [Great Examples of Greatness in Wild]
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17 - Book 2, Chapter 3 [Scenes of Softness, Love & Honour]
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18 - Book 2, Chapter 4 [On his Misfortune in a Speech]
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19 - Book 2, Chapter 5 [Many Surprising Adventures]
15:48
20 - Book 2, Chapter 6 [Of Hats]
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21 - Book 2, Chapter 7 [Heartfree's Adventures with Wild]
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22 - Book 2, Chapter 8 [Greatness to an Immoderate Height]
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23 - Book 2, Chapter 9 [More Greatness in Wild]
9:32
24 - Book 2, Chapter 10 [Sea-Adventures Very New & Surprising]
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25 - Book 2, Chapter 11 [Our Hero in the Boat]
7:06
26 - Book 2, Chapter 12 [Strange & Yet Natural Escape of our Hero]
7:48
27 - Book 2, Chapter 13 [Conclusion of the Boat Adventure]
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28 - Book 3, Chapter 1 [Pitiful Behaviour of Heartfree]
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29 - Book 3, Chapter 2 [A Soliloquy of Heartfree]
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30 - Book 3, Chapter 3 [The Road to Greatness]
8:44
31 - Book 3, Chapter 4 [A Young Hero ... Makes his First Appearance]
7:36
32 - Book 3, Chapter 5 [More and More Greatness]
13:45
33 - Book 3, Chapter 6 [Fireblood's Adventure]
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34 - Book 3, Chapter 7 [Preliminary to the Marriage between Mr. Jonathan Wild and the chaste Laeticia]
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35 - Book 3, Chapter 8 [A Dialogue Matrimonial]
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36 - Book 3, Chapter 9 [A Base Design on Our Hero]
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37 - Book 3, Chapter 10 [Unprecedented Generosity ... Ungrateful Reception]
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38 - Book 3, Chapter 11 [A Scheme So Deeply Laid]
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39 - Book 3, Chapter 12 [New Instances of Friendly's Folly]
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40 - Book 3, Chapter 13 [Something Concerning Fireblood]
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41 - Book 3, Chapter 14 [Our Hero Makes a Speech]
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42 - Book 4, Chapter 1 [Sentiment of the Ordinary's]
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43 - Book 4, Chapter 2 [Concerning Popular Ingratitude]
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44 - Book 4, Chapter 3 [The History of Newgate]
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45 - Book 4, Chapter 4 [The Dead-Warrant Arrives for Heartfree]
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46 - Book 4, Chapter 5 [Containing Various Matters]
9:27
47 - Book 4, Chapter 6 [The Foregoing Happy Incident is Accounted For]
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48 - Book 4, Chapter 7 [Mrs. Heartfree Relates Her Adventures]
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49 - Book 4, Chapter 8 [Mrs. Heartfree Continues]
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50 - Book 4, Chapter 9 [Containing Incidents Very Surprizing]
17:08
51 - Book 4, Chapter 10 [A Horrible Uproar in the Gate]
7:56
52 - Book 4, Chapter 11 [Conclusion of Mrs. Heartfree's Adventures]
14:12
53 - Book 4, Chapter 12 [The Contemplation of Greatness]
6:41
54 - Book 4, Chapter 13 [Death, Immortality, and Other Grave Matters]
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55 - Book 4, Capter 14 [The Highest Consummation of Human Greatness]
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56 - Book 4, Chapter 15 [The Conclusion of This History]
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The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great is a satirical novel by Henry Fielding, first published in 1743 as part of the third volume of his Miscellanies. The work is one of the most sustained ironic performances in eighteenth century English fiction and remains one of Fielding's most powerful satirical achievements alongside the major comic novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. The historical Jonathan Wild was a famous London criminal who had operated in the early eighteenth century as a thief taker, that is, a man who pretended to be on the side of law enforcement while actually running the largest criminal organization in London. Wild orchestrated robberies through his network of street thieves, then collected reward money from the victims for returning the stolen property to them, while also occasionally turning in rival criminals to the authorities to maintain his apparent respectability. He was eventually unmasked and put to death at Tyburn in 1725 in one of the most famous criminal public killings of the period. Fielding's satirical method in the novel is to treat Wild throughout as a man of greatness, with all the conventional rhetorical apparatus that biographies of the period applied to military conquerors, statesmen, and other heroic figures. The book is written in a sustained ironic register in which every quality conventionally associated with greatness is shown to apply equally well to Wild's career as a master criminal. The implicit point about the moral character of conventional greatness is unmistakable and was clearly aimed at Fielding's particular political targets including Sir Robert Walpole, the long serving Whig prime minister whose career had ended just before the book was published. The novel is shorter and more concentrated than Fielding's major comic novels. The satirical edge is sharper and more sustained, with very few of the warm comic interludes that lighten Tom Jones. For readers who want to see Fielding's satirical method in its purest form, this is the essential book. It runs about two hundred pages and reads in two or three sittings. The book has had substantial influence on later English satirical fiction, including most directly the work of Bertolt Brecht in The Threepenny Opera and various twentieth century writers working in the same ironic mode. It pairs naturally with the other works in the Miscellanies and with the longer novels.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and Amelia (1751). Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel.