Jack Sheppard Vol. 2 (Esprios Classics)

Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840 with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard. The novel was intertwined with the history of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist which ran in the same publication from February 1837 to April 1839. Dickens previously a friend of Ainsworth's became distant from Ainsworth as a controversy brewed over the scandalous nature around Jack Sheppard Oliver Twist and other novels describing criminal life.