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Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. The story centres around Jack Maggs (the equivalent of Magwitch) and his quest to meet his 'son' Henry Phipps (the equivalent of Pip), who has mysteriously disappeared, having closed up his house and dismissed his household.
17 mars 1999 · Jack Maggs, déporté comme criminel en Australie pendant de longues années, est de retour. Malgré son passé mystérieux, il réussit à se faire engager comme valet chez Percy Buckle, un riche commerçant qui pratique avec quelques amis des séances de magnétisme.
1 janv. 1997 · The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate.
Jack Maggs is a former convict from Australia who returns to London in 1837 to seek revenge and reconciliation. He becomes involved in a web of intrigue, romance, and hypnosis in this captivating mystery by the author of Oscar and Lucinda.
Jack Maggs revient d'Australie où il a été déporté comme criminel. Dans le Londres des années 1830, il réussit à se faire engager comme valet chez Percy Buckle, un ancien poissonnier devenu immensément riche grâce à un héritage faramineux.
22 avr. 2015 · Maggs, a figure both frightening and mysteriously compelling, is so in thrall to the notion of a gentlemanly class that he’s risked his life to come back to his torturers. His task is to...
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an...
