Arthur Morrison

Broschiertes Buch

A Child of the Jago

A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s

Beschreibung

This novel, first published in 1896, is 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.

Autor

Arthur Morrison was born on November 1, 1863. Morrison gave conflicting information about his background, and when he died his wife, on his instructions, burned all of his notebooks and papers. He died in December, 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 126mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 183g
• ISBN-13: 9780897333924
• ISBN-10: 0897333926
• Artikelnr.: 21618167