Housebreaker

In "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," a suburban man is going broke and begins to rob the unlocked and unprotected homes of his neighbors.

John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes 2010

In "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," a suburban man is going broke and begins to rob the unlocked and unprotected homes of his neighbors.

John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes 2010

Finely written, carefully crafted stories such as "The Sorrows of Gin," "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Five-Forty-Eight" delivered news about their marital habits, career disappointments and profound yearnings.

The Audubon of Suburbia 2009

As Johnny Hake, the hero of Cheever's story "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," puts it: "Shady Hill is, as I say, a banlieue and open to criticism by city planners, adventurers and lyric poets, but if you work in the city and have children to raise, I can't think of a better place."

Why Does Hollywood Hate the Suburbs? 2008

Even the English philosophers have reminded him how scandalous it is in an English bishop to manifest an opinion so contrary to the Church of England; and after all, this man has thought proper to call others impious: like Harlequin, in the farce of “The Housebreaker”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Housebreaker in this dangerous neighborhood of ours.

Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997

He moved on to the shady, bankrupt suburbs of The Housebreaker of Shady Hill (1953-1958).

The Family Way Hardwick, Elizabeth 1964

Housebreaker, who were all executed at Tyburn, the 29th of January,

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

The Life of JOHN PRICE, a Housebreaker and Thief [69]

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

The Life of PETER CURTIS, a Housebreaker, etc. Peter Curtis, _alias_ Friend, was born of honest but industrious parents in the country, at a very great distance from London.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward