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A child of the Jago / Arthur Morrison ; introduction by Anita Miller.
LIBRA Special PR5089.M7 C5 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slums--Fiction.
- Slums.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 164 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Academy Chicago, 1995.
- Summary:
- 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 extra-ordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance scheme.
- ISBN:
- 0897333926
- 9780897333924
- OCLC:
- 670814278
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