The Road To Tyburn

Author: Christopher Hibbert

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Price : 29.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780141390239
Publisher : 53783
Imprint : 44793
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Weight (g) : 0.198
Publication date : 27 September 2001
Dimensions : 216mm X 135mm X 13mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Christopher Hibbert
Series : Penguin Classic History S.
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Edition : New edition
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Dewey classification : 942.1071092
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Pages : 176
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Jack Sheppard, glamorous rebel, daring escapee and idol of the London mob, was one of the most legendary criminals of 18th-century England. When he finally met his end and was hanged in 1724, weeping girls and thronging crowds lined the road to the gallows at Tyburn.

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Christopher Hibbert is a prolific author, many of whose books are published by Penguin. Other titles to appear in the Classic Penguin series are The Making of Charles Dickens and Charles I.

The legend; the background; boyhood and apprenticeship; bad company; crime and punishment; alone in the world; Jonathan Wild; Newgate; the trial; the condemned hold; the great escape from Newgate; the last days of freedom; the second trial; Tyburn fair.

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