Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 28Reality, as well suit any other such great Man, as the Person himself whose Name it bears, As if realizing that this admission would open the way to application to specific individuals, Fielding goes on: A second Caution I would give my Reader is, that as it is not a very faithful Portrait of Jonathan Wild him self, so neither is it intended to represent the Features of any other Person. Roguery, and not a Rogue, is my Subject, and as I have been so far from endeavouring to particularize any Individual, that I have with my utmost Art avoided it, so will any such Application be unfair in my Reader, especially if he knows much of the Great World, since he must then be acquainted, I believe, With more than one on whom he can fix the Resemblance. Wild was not of the Great World, which in 1700-1750 would be regarded as the world of Society or of the Court.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.