A Child of the Jago - An Academy Victorian Classic
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780897333924 |
Publisher: | Chicago Review Press |
Imprint: | Academy Chicago Publishers |
Pub date: | 30 Aug 2005 |
DEWEY: | 823.8 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 164 |
Weight: | 204g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Spine width: | 10mm |