A Child Of The Jago

by Arthur Morrison

Overview

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 descriptins 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791222060705
Publisher:	Muhammad Humza
Publication date:	01/13/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	269 KB

About the Author

Arthur George Morrison (1863 -1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. He left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945.
His most known novel is A Child of the Jago(1896).

Editorial Reviews

Nicholas Boulton brings this bleakly energetic 1896 novel to life with intelligence. Set in the worst of the London slums, it focuses on the ill-starred Perrott family, especially the boy Dicky, but includes many other neighborhood characters. Boulton moves easily among all of them, fluently altering voices, accents, ages, and genders as if he's a one-man full cast. His deep, slightly rough narrative voice is itself a pleasure. His sensitivity and skill help characterize the people, illuminating and enriching the story's episodes. His empathetic delivery makes this brutal time and place more vivid, which helps involve the listener. His strong but unobtrusive performance enhances both the poignancy and the pleasure of this novel. W.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2024 - AudioFile