Child of the Jago
- Length
- 6 h 20 min
- Chapters
- 7
- Language
- English
- First published
- 1896
Arthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories. Morrison's most famous novel is A Child of the Jago, published in 1896, The novel described in graphic detail living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life (it was a barely fictionalized account of life in the Old Nichol Street Rookery). (Introduction by Wikipedia and Algy Pug)
Other works in the trilogy:
1 - Tales of Mean Streets
3 - To London Town
Chapters
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