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Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s (Academy Victorian Classic) by: Arthur Morrison List Price: £6.50 City Travel Guides Price: £6.49 You Save: £0.01 ( 0%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780897333924 ISBN: 0897333926 Label: Academy Chicago Publications Manufacturer: Academy Chicago Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: January 15, 1994 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publications Studio: Academy Chicago Publications Sales Rank: 74013 Related Items:
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 Rating: - ExcellentA very easy to read short victorian novel covering many aspects of slum life. Unsentimental un moralistic quite refreshing for the times I would have thought. With a gripping compelling style Morrison brings the characters to life not forgetting interesting portrayals of various women of the slum community. Rating: - Gritty and unsentimentalMorrison's descriptive style is a welcome change to the classic realism of the mid-Victorian period. The slum dwellers are depicted with the detachment of a biologist looking at a non-human species. There is little moralizing, and little authorial commentary. If you're buying this novel, I would particularly recommend the edition by Peter Miles, formerly in Dent Everyman, and now (I think) in Phoenix. It comes with excellent notes, excerpts from contemporary reviews, and a glossary of the London slang used. Rating:  - 'A Child of the Jago' is an accurate appraisal of slum life'A Child of the Jago' by Arthur Morrison is an excellent book for one major and special reason - its stunningly realistic accuracy. Throughout the book is violent, sad and an accurate view of Victorian slum life. Morrison goes further in many ways than Charles Dickens or Elizabeth Gaskell to write a vivid account of life centered in the slums (essentially the Jago). In Dicky Perrot and through a child's eyes we see: theft, exploitation, hopes, dreams, violence, drunkeness, death, success and loss to name some of the many things Dicky witnesses. His choice is to commit fraud, 'clicks' (muggings) and crime to work his way up slowly and gain his place with the high-mob and thereby risk the gallows, or escape the slums in a 'proper' job. ... Read More: Rating: - A Dickensian style novel said with much fewer wordsThe Jago was one of, if not the worst slums in London. Dicky Perrot is the main character of the story and we follow him form age 8 to about 17. His fight for survival and the responsibility he feels for his mother and sister whilst his Father is in prison makes you feel like crying. He has nothing and knows, as the local eccentric put it, that the Jago had got him and that there are only two ways out for him - to become a "Swellmobsmen" ( successful thief ) or death. Dicky is encouraged by the local Parson, Father Sturt, who is tireless in his work with the people of the Jago, to try to make something decent and honest with his life and enjoy all the things that the people who he robs enjoy and manages to secure him a job as a delivery ... Read More: Rating: - shockingly violent for a victorian novel.This book moved me when I was 18. I have been searching for it for 18 years. I hope I like it second time around. |
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