A Child of the Jago
Arthur Morrison
240 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0460877720
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Language: English
Publish: October 15, 1996
19th CenturyAudiobookBritish LiteratureClassicsFictionHistorical FictionNovelsRead For SchoolSchoolVictorian
In the labyrinthine slums of The Jago’s squalid East End, Morrison discovered not only a republic of the Victorian underclass and its nether world of crime and dissolution, but also a dark metaphor for the oppression of mind and spirit that imprisoned its inhabitants.