Child of the Jago

A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Arthur Morrison ISBN: 9780897336536
Publisher: Chicago Review Press Publication: May 1, 2014
Imprint: Academy Chicago Publishers Language: English
Author: Arthur Morrison
ISBN: 9780897336536
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Publication: May 1, 2014
Imprint: Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English

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.

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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.

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