Bøger af Arthur Morrison

A tale of grinding poverty and struggle, A Child of the Jago follows Dicky Perrott - a boy who wishes to escape London's impoverished and corruption-riddled East End for a better life.First published at the end of the 19th century when industrialised London was in a state of dire impoverishment, the story is not a typical rags to riches tale - the Perrott family, and their friends and enemies, must struggle for their very survival in the harsh environment they live within. Tension and desperation amid the crime and roughness is constant in the overcrowded slums of the East End, with fortune hard to come by and danger ever present. The novel opens with a vivid and stark image of a hot midsummer's day - the residents of the Jago sleeping outside in the roads to avoid the heat and stench of their own homes. Illustrating the desperate situation, a robbery promptly occurs in which the victim is relieved of the very clothes on his back.

A tale of grinding poverty and struggle, A Child of the Jago follows Dicky Perrott - a boy who wishes to escape London's impoverished and corruption-riddled East End for a better life.First published at the end of the 19th century when industrialized London was in a state of dire impoverishment, the story is not a typical rags to riches tale - the Perrott family, and their friends and enemies, must struggle for their very survival in the harsh environment they live within. Tension and desperation amid the crime and roughness is constant in the overcrowded slums of the East End, with fortune hard to come by and danger ever present.The novel opens with a vivid and stark image of a hot midsummer's day - the residents of the Jago sleeping outside in the roads to avoid the heat and stench of their own homes. Illustrating the desperate situation, a robbery promptly occurs in which the victim is relieved of the very clothes on his back.

The Shadows Around Us - Authentic Tales of the Supernatural The incidents set forth in the ensuing pages are as completely testified to as written facts well may be-that is to say, infinitely more care has been taken to verify and substantiate them than is taken to authenticate the matter-of-fact news published in a daily newspaper and accepted by everybody without question. For several of the cases the compiler is indebted to the investigations of the Society for Psychical Research. THE VAULT AT AHRENSBURG, THE LICHWAKE AT MONIFIETH, THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF MR. ROBERT BRUCE, THE WRAITH OF FRANCIS TANTUM, THE APPARITION OF LIEUTENANT COLT, THE STRANGE CASE OF ESTHER T--, THE POLTERGEIST OF LEIGNITZ CASTLE, THE BINSTEAD MYSTERY, THE TRANSLATION OF MAURICE TULLING, THE HAUNTED HOUSE AT WILLINGTON, NO. 15 ST. SWITHIN'S LANE, THE STRANGE CASE OF EMÉLIE SAGÉE, THE HAUNTING OF WILLIAM MOIR, CURIOUS INCIDENT AT BEAUMARIS, A DOUBLE CASE

This Broadview Edition provides the literary, socio-historical, and philosophical contexts vital to readers' understanding and appreciation of the novel. Historical appendices include materials on eugenics, hooliganism, women's sweated labour, cultural philanthropy, and the debate over the novel's accuracy.

In the slum streets of the Jago, Dicky Perrott lives a life of petty crime and violence. With Father Sturt's arrival, he sees how his horizons might alter. Dicky's story highlights the terrible conditions of the Victorian underworld and the social policy that underpinned it. This edition provides rich contextual background material.

In his acclaimed and final East End novel, Arthur Morrison returns to a slightly earlier period than that of Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago, the 1860s and 1870s.

'If the community have left horrible places and horrible lives before his eyes, then the fault is the community's: and to picture these places and these lives becomes not merely his privilege, but his duty.' The Jago was a corner of Shoreditch, notorious as the filthiest of London's late nineteenth-century slums.