Jack Sheppard (novel) for many months in the "Bentley's Miscellany": Dickens' "Oliver Twist". The plots are similar, in that both deal with an individual attempting to corrupt a boy. Ainsworth's boy is corrupted, whereas Dickens' is not. Both authors also cast Jews as their villains; they are similar in appearance, though Ainsworth's is less powerful. According to Frank Chandler, the novel "was intended as a study in the Spanish style". Such influences appear in Jack's physical description and in the words of the characters. Dramatist John Gay stated that Jack's story is related to the stories of Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, Estevanillo
Farm Boy (novel) Farm Boy (novel) Farm Boy is a novel by Michael Morpurgo, best known as being the sequel to the popular novel "War Horse". The book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Pavilion Books Limited and is illustrated by Michael Foreman. It was not initially planned for Morpurgo to write a sequel to "War Horse", but the story was inspired after receiving many enquiries about what happens to Joey, a horse in service of the Army (the main character from "War Horse") after the Great War. In an article in ChronicleLive Michael Morpurgo also stated that his