- This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Poverty in London during the splendorous Victorian Era
Originally published in 1896, “A Child of the Jago” is a novel by English author Arthur Morrison, a bestseller in its time.
“A Child of the Jago” tells the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants.
Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes. Actually, the Old Jago was a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London.
A Child of the Jago (Annotated)
Originally published in 1896, “A Child of the Jago” is a novel by English author Arthur Morrison, a bestseller in its time.
“A Child of the Jago” tells the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants.
Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes. Actually, the Old Jago was a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London.
- This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Poverty in London during the splendorous Victorian Era
Originally published in 1896, “A Child of the Jago” is a novel by English author Arthur Morrison, a bestseller in its time.
“A Child of the Jago” tells the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants.
Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes. Actually, the Old Jago was a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London.
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| ISBN-13: | 9791221336429 |
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| Publisher: | ePembaBooks |
| Publication date: | 03/18/2023 |
| Sold by: | StreetLib SRL |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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