A Child of the Jago - Couverture souple

Morrison, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460877720 ISBN 13 : 9780460877725

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1996

Synopsis

Arthur Morrison's (1863-1945) 'realist' tales of East End life in London were first published in MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and later collected as TALES OF MEAN STREETS.He is best remembered for A CHILD OF THE JAGO which describes the boyhood of Dick Perott in an East End slum off Shoreditch High Street,and gives a vivid account of the violent crime in the neighbourhood.Dicky's father is hanged for murder and Dicky must struggle to follow his better instincts in spite of his vicious environment.Resembling the earlier work os Somerset Maughn,A CHILD OF THE JAGOis a brutal but touching honesty.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison. A bestseller in its time,it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol,a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The novel opens after midnight on a hot summer night, when many of the residents of the Jago, likened to “great rats”, prefer to sleep in the street to avoid the oppressive heat and stench of the closely packed houses. A man lured into a dwelling by a woman is brutally coshed, robbed and dragged unconscious into the street where others remove his boots. Dicky Perrott, 8 or 9 years old (the uncertainty is telling) makes his way home to the single room in which his family dwells, where he finds his mother, Hannah Perrott and flea-bitten baby sister, Looey, but only a crust of bread to eat. As dawn breaks his father, Josh Perrott, returns home with a club sticky with blood and hair, suggesting another robbery. Looking for cake and tea Dicky visits the East End Elevation Mission where well-intentioned middle-class ‘missionaries’ seek to educate and civilise. He dodges the young man on the door and takes the opportunity to steal a gold watch from a bishop. Returning home he proudly hands it to his father, who beats him for stealing but keeps the watch to sell for himself.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing !B ecause, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace,- and there was no peace ;and one built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar: Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower ;and ye, Ogreat hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460877720
• ISBN 13: 9780460877725
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Miles Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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