Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq: Volume ThreeVolume Three of Henry Fielding's Miscellanies, first published as a three volume set in 1743, consists in its entirety of a major work of fiction, The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. Jonathan Wild takes its title from the thief taker' and gang leader of that name who was hanged in 1725, but in Fielding's hands, the history of Wild is transformed into a mock historical work of sustained irony aimed at all who would be great