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
All American Boy (novel) All American Boy (novel) All American Boy is a novel by William J. Mann. Fourteen-year-old Walter (Wally) Day was a good son, the smartest boy in his class, an archetypal "all-American boy" growing up in the 1970s. Twenty years later, Wally’s mother, whom he has not seen in ten years, asks him to come home and Wally, now a handsome actor, has to confront the reasons he left his hometown of Brown's Mill in a cloud of anger, shame, and guilt. Wally is in denial, denial about his failing career as an actor and denial about the rent-boys he uses.