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	Amazon.com: Jack Maggs: A Novel: Books: Peter Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jack Maggs is a variation on Great Expectations, in which Dickens's tale is told from the viewpoint of Australian convict Abel Magwitch.
		Jack Maggs, a foundling who has been trained as a small child to rob wealthy houses, is caught, sentenced for deportation, and forbidden to return to England on pain of execution.
		"Jack Maggs" is a novel that is completely realized in its attempt to recreate Victorian (possibly circa-the Industrial Revolution, but dating it is a little difficult) England not only in setting, but in language and tone as well.
	www.amazon.com /Jack-Maggs-Novel-Peter-Carey/dp/0679760377 (1765 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| JACK MAGGS by Peter Carey
		Jack Maggs, a foundling trained as a thief, betrayed and deported to a penal colony in Australia, has reversed his fortunes.
		Maggs is a strong man with certain weaknesses.
		Maggs tells Mercy that he was flogged by "a soldier of the King," to which she replies, "Then it were the King who lashed you" [p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/jack_maggs.asp (1242 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Jack Maggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jack Maggs is Peter Carey's Wide Sargasso Sea, a postcolonial retaliation that rewrites a canonical text from the English literary tradition.
		Jack Maggs returns to London from the penal colony of Australia seeking home and revenge, but both are revealed to be illusions.
		Maggs, the working-class orphan, the eventual Australian, is a victim not merely of actual oppressions, but also of an idealised England of the mind, an “imaginary community” (Anderson, 1983), which in reality is a nation of inequality whose class and colonial oppressions are interwoven injustices.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4368 (1547 words)

	Jack Maggs, Constant Reader Discussion
		I think the Maggs characters based on the real life folks in Dickens life were every bit as fascinating as the character Dickens created in GE and which Carey 'morphed' in Jack Maggs.
		I found JACK MAGGS to be very different from GE in that it focused on the prisoner and not on the young man who received the education from the prisoner.
		Topic: Jack Maggs (44 of 44), Read 7 times Conf: READING LIST BOOKS From: Bob Markiewicz (bob markiewicz@aol.com) Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:36 AM Tonya wrote: But I'll tell you the truth, from the lock-down to their return to London, it was just this side of impossible to continue with.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/jackmaggs.htm (8166 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Jack Maggs
		Jack Maggs, the title character of Peter Carey's arresting new novel, has returned furtively to England, from the penal colony in Australia to which he has been deported for life.
		But, while lurking on the property, Maggs is mistaken for an applicant for a footman's job by Mercy Larkin, the maid at a neighboring house.
		From these mysterious beginnings, Jack Maggs takes readers on an unexpected trip into an 18th-century world of privilege and privation, of preconceptions and misapprehension.
	www.bookpage.com /9803bp/fiction/jackmaggs.html (361 words)

	Hail, Australia - Peter Carey turns Dickens and the 19th-century British novel upside down. By Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Maggs returns from New South Wales, where he is now a citizen of good repute and considerable wealth, to England, where he is still a wanted man, to find Phipps, whose foppish lifestyle he has long subsidized.
		Oates cuts a deal with Maggs: He will help the convict find Phipps if Maggs will agree to undergo a series of experiments in "Mesmerism." Their terrible sessions (click here for a sample) anchor the tale and provide a framework for its telling.
		Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking lodging houses.
	slate.msn.com /id/3045 (1190 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		In Jack Maggs Carey takes his Victorian forefathers by the sideburns, bringing Dickens himself back to life in the figure of a ruthless and driven young novelist, Tobias Oates, who writes lucrative, sensational accounts of accident victims, destitutes, and criminals.
		Jack Maggs, a transported convict returned from Australia, offers perfect fodder for the novelist: “ ‘It’s the Criminal Mind,’ said Tobias Oates, ‘awaiting its first cartographer.’ ” Unlike Magwitch in Great Expectations, however, Maggs resists exoticization.
		Given the literary conceit on which it rests, Jack Maggs makes for a great comparison to Great Expectations, and it is worth a heap of essays on its main themes: the pitfalls of fiction, the blind spots of Victorian ideology, social discipline.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/98_2/jackmaggs.html (276 words)

	New Expectations
		Jack Maggs (Knopf) is a literary response of sorts.
		Jack Maggs begins where Great Expectations ended, with the title character (whose name is a play on Magwitch) arriving in England to find his Pip, Henry Phipps.
		Phipps is hiding from Maggs in fear of being exposed as the beneficiary of an exiled convict.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/022599/books.shtml (708 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Great extrapolations
		At the heart of the novel is the battle for mastery between Maggs and Oates.
		Maggs takes service, disguised as a footman, in the house next door to the one he has bought for the 'gentleman' he is in search of.
		One of the ironies of Jack Maggs is that the convict and the writer are in some ways similar.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,96461,00.html (1124 words)

	Guardian lit. \| Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In his latest novel, Jack Maggs, he takes as his hero a Victorian-era convict with a facial tic, an exile who has made good in the penal colony of New South Wales and has returned to London to seek out his surrogate son.
		Maggs can be seen as an archetype of Abel Magwitch, the enigmatic convict of Great Expectations.
		But in Jack Maggs, Carey does himself a disservice by tying the story so closely to the Dickens novel.
	www.sfbg.com /lit/reviews/greater.html (826 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jack Maggs: Books: Peter Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jack Magg is a criminal who has been deported to Australia, but has now returned to the city of his younth to make up with his past.
		Maggs must mentally dodge and weave, moving between the worlds of Percy Buckle, Tobias Oates and the street urchin he was before being sent across the seas.
		Jack Maggs, a foundling trained as a thief, betrayed and deported to a penal colony in Australia, has reversed his fortunes.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Jack-Maggs-Peter-Carey/dp/0571193773 (1791 words)

	Jack Maggs (Unabridged) Audio Book
		Jack Maggs (Unabridged) was authored by Peter Carey and is narrated by N/A.
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	Books: The Wicked Art (Weekly Alibi . 03-30-98)
		Oates meets Jack Maggs while he is working as a footman at the home of an admirer.
		Once Maggs regains consciousness, however, he begins to worry that the writer has discovered secrets from his past which he would prefer to remain hidden.
		Jack Maggs feels around the awkward, beautiful, complex, infuriating relationship between life and literature in a way that disturbs and touches.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/03-30-98/alibi_art2.html (774 words)

	‘Who am I when I am transported?’ Postcolonialism and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
		Oates is unable to understand Jack’s reaction to the appropriation of his dead fiancee’s character and name in the first draft of the novel : ‘I write that name Jack, like a stonemason makes the name upon a headstone, so that her memory may live for ever.
		Throughout the novel Maggs is identified with the colony of Australia, and often referred to as ‘the Australian’, thereby underscoring the fact that his decade in exile has had a far greater effect on his development than his previous existence in England.
		Significantly, in Carey’s decolonising text, Jack Maggs is allowed to return to the distant continent, happily marry the servant girl Mercy Larkin, prosper in business, live to a ripe and peaceful old age, and father 'five further members of 'that race' (the race of Australians) '(327).
	www.qub.ac.uk /english/imperial/austral/jack-maggs.htm (1241 words)

	Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Peter Carey's new novel, set in London in 1837, is a thrilling story of mesemerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love.
		Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk.
		In Jack Maggs, Peter Carey has attempted something new again: taking another's invented world - that of Charles Dickens - and turning it in his hand like a prism to cast a new light.
	www.stokenewington.net /readinggroup/books/carey.html (245 words)

	MySpace.com - Jack Maggs - Londonapolis, UK - Indie / Pop / Big Beat - www.myspace.com/jackmaggs
		Jack Maggs began when Nick responded to an ad posted in Soho by Benjie.
		Jack Maggs' songs are inspired by the sight of St. Paul's, the scent of London gin, and the sound of the North Sea.
		If Dickens was around today, Boz would probably have Jack Maggs in his record collection.
	www.myspace.com /jackmaggs (630 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Jack Maggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Gradually Carey reveals that the stranger, Jack Maggs, has returned to England illegally -- under penalty of death -- after 24 years of penal servitude in Australia.
		Maggs' destination is a handsome townhouse in a once-fashionable corner of the city, but he finds the place uninhabited.
		And in its lightly fictionalized portrait of a young Dickens only one or two desperate newspaper assignments ahead of his creditors, Jack Maggs accurately exposes the precarious economic position of England's burgeoning middle class during this period.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/review.asp?id=1883 (557 words)

	Dickens Lives -- in a Den of London Thieves / Peter Carey mixes crime, deception and redemption in exuberant novel
		With roller-coaster turns and indefatigable energy, ``Jack Maggs'' joins Carey's earlier novels, including ``Illywhacker'' and ``The Tax Inspector,'' as their wildly eccentric relative: exhausting, perhaps, but always welcome as a master weaver of fanciful stories.
		The sprawling novel opens with the image of Jack Maggs, once deported to Australia for his thieving ways, now arriving in London in 1837 in a bright red waistcoat ``of excellent quality'' to reclaim his house, son and English identity.
		In ``Jack Maggs,'' Carey not only lays claim to Dickens' territory, he reinvents it with narrative acrobatics and linguistic winks.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/15/RV37203.DTL&type=printable (911 words)

	Nicholas Jose
		When he entered the soul of Jack Maggs, it was as if he had entered the guts of a huge and haunted engine.
		From the moment of transportation Maggs disappears into a netherworld from which he brings back the searing image of his brutal flogging by an officer of the Crown -- and two dark locks of baby's hair.
		Both Tobias Oates' The Death of Maggs (published in final form in 1861) and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs have their resemblance, as in a hall of mirrors, to Charles Dickens's marvellous, moving Great Expectations, first published in 1860-1.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~abr/Aug97/jose.html (925 words)

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	Jack Maggs : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Actually, the character of Jack Maggs reminded me right away of Marv, the main character of the first Sin City book (Mickey Rourke in the film).
		Yes, Maggs is close to Magwitch, and Phipps sounds like Pip, and why not, this was a pretty cool twist on the story.
		In "Jack Maggs", there is the Dickens novel "Great Expectations", with Carey offering modern interpretations of Pip's relationship with Herbert Pocket and Magwitch's obsession with Pip.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0679760377.html (836 words)

	Litteratursiden.dk - Historien om Jack Maggs af Peter Carey
		Men sønnen er forsvundet fra sit hus, og Jack Maggs bliver, mens han snuser rundt i nærheden, fejlagtigt antaget for at være den nye lakaj i nabohuset.
		Tobias Oates tilbyder at helbrede Jack Maggs for nogle smertefulde kramper i ansigtet ved at "magnetisere" ham, og derved får han indblik i nogle af Jack Maggs' hemmeligheder.
		Det ligger Jack Maggs fjernt selv at afsløre sit livs hemmeligheder, men han gør det, når han som nævnt er under påvirkning af de magnetiske strygninger, og når han om natten kravler over tagene til sønnens hus for at nedfælde beretningen om sin opvækst og sin forbryderbane.
	www.litteratursiden.dk /sw1342.asp (291 words)

	Jack Maggs
		Peter Carey's new novel, set in London in 1837, is a thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love.
		Another couple of points in its disfavour were that it started getting a bit silly and excitable towards the end, - with the Partridges and in the boat and the shooting (what is it about good writers and bad gun scenes?) - and the mesmerism strand didn't really work.
		Maggs himself is a marvellous character, very flawed and unsentimentally drawn and his nemesis Oates provides a not particularly flattering picture of "Dickens" who gets his come-uppance, but we are told, in a quick round-up at the end, goes on to become a "bearded eminence".
	www.btinternet.com /~edandmill/reviews/jackmaggs.htm (447 words)

	Morgue : Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With Jack Maggs, he is committing what some might see as a "literary trick." The character Jack Maggs is the criminal whom young Pip encounters in Great Expectations, by Dickens.
		What Carey has done is write an original story from Jack's side of things, picking up when Jack arrives back in London after escaping exile in Australia.
		Add to that the household staff of Percy Buckle, an eccentric man who hires Maggs, and there is a wonderful, unusual cast of characters in the novel that makes this one of the year's best books.
	www.overmydeadbody.com /maggs.htm (419 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Jack Maggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jack Maggs is a variation on Great Expectations, in which Dickens's tale is told from the viewpoint of Australian convict Abel Magwitch.
		Jack Maggs is not a Dickens rip-off: the characters, the voice, the language, the humour, are Carey's own.
		He turns this conceit on end by making Jack Maggs the center of this novel and fictionalizing a Dickens-like character, Tobias Oats, to write about him.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679309799 (1589 words)

	Jack Maggs
		Now its 1998 and Carey is back with Jack Maggs, and once again I think I may be back on track in reading a Booker Prize winner, this time before it has even been nominated.
		Turns out that he seeks a reunion with Phipps, an orphan who was kind to Maggs as he was transported in shackles to the loading docks for Australia.
		The story of Jack Maggs is Carey's speculation on events which might have caused Dickens to invent Great Expectations.
	brannan.org /Dispatches/1998/Spring98/JackMaggs.html (853 words)

	Book Cafe: A Response to Jack Maggs
		As I read it, Jack Maggs, by the witty Australian author Peter Carey, is a deconstruction of Charles Dickens himself.
		It might be best to read Jack Maggs with a copy of Peter Ackroyd's biography, Dickens, at your side to see just how scathing his fictional critique is. Carey not only takes up the message of Dickens creatively but writes Jack Maggs with all the descriptive beauty of a Dickens novel.
		Best of all is Maggs himself a self-rehabilitated ex-con who comes to see what his expectations of his adopted son have amounted to.
	www.watershedonline.ca /community/bookcafe/bcjackmaggs.shtml (210 words)

	Jack Maggs, Constant Reader Discussion
		Topic: JACK MAGGS: an aside (1 of 6), Read 65 times Conf: CONSTANT READER From: Bob Markiewicz (bob markiewicz@aol.com) Date: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 01:34 PM Early on in JACK MAGGS, there is much talk about "thief takers" and the name Jonathan Wild is mentioned.
		Topic: JACK MAGGS: an aside (4 of 6), Read 43 times Conf: CONSTANT READER From: Ian Marks (comfortably_numb@ecosse.net) Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 03:47 PM Bob -- Far as I know, JM went down pretty well over here.
		Topic: JACK MAGGS: an aside (5 of 6), Read 46 times Conf: CONSTANT READER From: Bob Markiewicz (bob markiewicz@aol.com) Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 03:56 PM Nice and terse.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/jackmaggsaside.htm (657 words)

	Biblio: Jack Maggs by Peter Carey: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Without ever descending into postmodernist boredom, he crafts a quintessentially postmodern tale, in which the novel we are reading is also the novel whose creation we are reading about....The various meanings are simply there to be decoded, or not.
		Meanwhile, on the surface 'Jack Maggs' is still a ripping good yarn--and one needn't have Mr.
		"'Jack Maggs' is wonderfully acute in its analysis of Dickens, and wildly entertaining at the same time....Dickens's idiosyncratic drollery can't be easy to imitate.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/27507789.html (657 words)

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