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The Thieves' Opera : The Mesmerizing Story of Two-Notorious Criminals in Eighteenth-Century London Guy Deutscher Alarm among the Southerners”)A gem, with clear insights into popular eighteenth century social history TatlerGeorgian London was a city of contrasts: its bourgeois elegance and refinement thrived amidst filth and foul smells, decadence and depravity. Crime was everywhere from pickpockets and prostitutes in the center city to plundering highwaymen on the outskirts. Jonathan Wild came to dominate 18th century London's criminal underworld in part by orchestrating the theft of