The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
By Henry Fielding
- Release Date: 2012-06-19
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
This book is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged.