{"covers": [5585939, 5723041, 5839264, 9027141, 9038853, 9125713, 10962635, 11439633, 11532842, 13450160], "first_publish_date": "1879", "key": "/works/OL176041W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL22358A"}}], "title": "A rogue's life, from his birth to his marriage", "lc_classifications": ["PR4494 R6 1894"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "I am going to try if I can't write something about myself. My life has been rather a strange one. It may not seem particularly useful or respectable; but it has been, in some respects, adventurous; and that may give it claims to be read, even in the most prejudiced circles. I am an example of some of the workings of the social system of this illustrious country on the individual native, during the early part of the present century; and, if I may say so without unbecoming vanity, I should like to quote myself for the edification of my countrymen."}, "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "I AM going to try if I can't write something about myself."}, "dewey_number": ["823/.8"], "subjects": ["Classic Literature", "Fiction", "English literature", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Collins, wilkie, 1824-1889", "Fiction, romance, general", "England, fiction", "Paris (france), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Forgery -- Fiction", "Inheritance -- Fiction", "FICTION -- Classics", "Forgery", "Rogues and vagabonds", "History"], "latest_revision": 17, "revision": 17, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-20T17:54:34.708058"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-13T16:55:56.811523"}}