A Child of the Jago (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781979854238)

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.

Author: Arthur Morrison
ISBN-10: 1979854238
ISBN-13: 9781979854238
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2017
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d