Jack Maggs
A convict transported to New South Wales comes back illegally to London in 1837 to find the young gentleman he has been secretly funding since boyhood, and takes a footman's place in the house next door in order to watch. An ambitious young novelist called Tobias Oates gets him under mesmerism and begins mining his memories for a book of his own. Carey gives Magwitch the account Dickens never let him give, and puts Dickens in the room as the man stealing it.
Open Jack Maggs in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.
Lineage
- reworks ↑ Great Expectations
Attributes
Plot structure
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 51% · 12 shared
- 48% · 12 shared
- 48% · 12 shared
- 48% · 12 shared
- 46% · 14 shared
- 46% · 12 shared