A Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s

by Morrison, Arthur
ISBN: 9780897333924
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Overview

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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Morrison, Arthur
  • ISBN: 9780897333924
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.92 x 0.43
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 2005