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Jack Sheppard: A Romance

Name: Jack Sheppard: A Romance
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth

Read by Mark Leder · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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EPOCH THE FIRST, 1703, JONATHAN WILD. Chapter One: The Widow and Her Child (30:28)
Chapter Two: The Old Mint (34:58)
Chapter Three: The Master of the Mint (12:33)
Chapter Four: The Roof and the Window (19:30)
Chapter Five: The Denunciation (19:31)
Chapter Six: The Storm (26:26)
Chapter Seven: Old London Bridge (19:37)
EPOCH THE SECOND, 1715, THAMES DARRELL. Chapter One: The Idle Apprentice (30:26)
Chapter Two: Thames Darrell (17:26)
Chapter Three: The Jacobite (8:09)
Chapter Four: Mr. Kneebone and His Friends (9:15)
Chapter Five: Hawk and Buzzard (36:06)
Chapter Six: The First Step Towards the Ladder (25:19)
Chapter Seven: Brother and Sister (11:01)
Chapter Eight: Miching Mallecho (28:04)
Chapter Nine: Consequences of the Theft (15:00)
Chapter Ten: Mother and Son (14:06)
Chapter Eleven: The Mohocs (17:13)
Chapter Twelve: Saint Giles's Round-house (21:23)
Chapter Thirteen: The Magdalene (32:40)
Chapter Fourteen: The Flash Ken (17:00)
Chapter Fifteen: The Robbery in Willesden Church (7:29)
Chapter Sixteen: Jonathan Wild's House in the Old Bailey (23:19)
Chapter Seventeen: The Night-cellar (17:26)
Chapter Eighteen: How Jack Sheppard Broke Out of the Cage at Willesden (14:40)
Chapter Nineteen: Good and Evil (7:45)
EPOCH THE THIRD: 1724, THE PRISON-BREAKER. Chapter One: The Return (43:15)
Chapter Two: The Burglary at Dollis Hill (11:53)
Chapter Three: Jack Sheppard's Quarrel with Jonathan Wild (8:13)
Chapter Four: Jack Sheppard's Escape from the New Prison (7:40)
Chapter Five: The Disguise (40:27)
Chapter Six: Winifred Receives Two Proposals (14:26)
Chapter Seven: Jack Sheppard Warns Thames Darrell (17:33)
Chapter Eight: Old Bedlam (25:16)
Chapter Nine: Old Newgate (19:01)
Chapter Ten: How Jack Sheppard Got Out of the Condemned Hold (34:11)
Chapter Eleven: Dollis Hill Revisited (28:36)
Chapter Twelve: The Well-hole (22:07)
Chapter Thirteen: The Supper at Mr. Kneebone's (48:01)
Chapter Fourteen: How Jack Sheppard Was Again Captured (23:38)
Chapter Fifteen: How Bluepaint Underwent the Peine Forte et Dure (18:46)
Chapter Sixteen: How Jack Sheppard's Portrait Was Painted (28:28)
Chapter Seventeen: The Iron Bar (6:44)
Chapter Eighteen: The Bed Room (4:02)
Chapter Nineteen: The Chapel (7:58)
Chapter Twenty: The Leads (9:05)
Chapter Twenty-one: What Befell Jack Sheppard in the Turner's House (14:36)
Chapter Twenty-two: Fast and Loose (8:59)
Chapter Twenty-three: The Last Meeting Between Jack Sheppard and His Mother (14:30)
Chapter Twenty-four: The Pursuit (8:00)
Chapter Twenty-five: How Jack Sheppard Got Rid of His Irons (13:23)
Chapter Twenty-six: How Jack Sheppard Attended His Mother's Funeral (14:48)
Chapter Twenty-seven: How Jack Sheppard Was Brought Back to Newgate (17:08)
Chapter Twenty-eight: What Happened at Dollis Hill (13:33)
Chapter Twenty-nine: How Jack Sheppard Was Taken to Westminster Hall (8:29)
Chapter Thirty: How Jonathan Wild's House Was Burnt Down (8:41)
Chapter Thirty-one: The Procession to Tyburn (22:51)
Chapter Thirty-two: The Closing Scene (7:11)