| A Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s Contributor(s): Morrison, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897333926 ISBN-13: 9780897333924 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93033394 |
| Series: Academy Victorian Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 4.97" W x 7.92" (0.40 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
