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Title: A Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s (An Academy Victorian Classic) by Arthur Morrison ISBN: 0-89733-392-6 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Harshly Realistic
Comment: Arthur Morrison's novel provides an excellent (if harsh) counterpoint to the relative gentility of Great Expectations or Wuthering Heights. You may be thinking, "Dickens and Bronte didn't pull punches," but read A Child of the Jago, and suddenly Pip's life will seem downright bucolic.
Morrison gives the reader a window into the seamy underbelly of Victorian London, and exposes unimaginable living conditions and inhuman treatment. This book is a must-read if you enjoy Victorian literature. It brings to life a part of London that must be experienced to be believed.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Dickensian style novel said with much fewer words
Comment: The 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 boy for the local chandler. Unfortunately for Dicky he is dismissed thanks to an old friend who does not want him to take the straight and narrow path. After this Dicky goes down hill fast, he loses patience with his mother who takes to the Gin and leaves Em his sister to crawl in the gutter and fend for herself, his Father, disenchanted with life after coming out of prison, does his one last fatal job and at the end we see a small, poor desperate Dicky and like his old friend Beveridge told him years before, there are only two ways out of the Jago... Find out which way Dicky gets out in this excellent and realistic portrayal of life in a London slum at the turn of the century.
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Title: The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2B: The Victorian Age (2nd Edition) by David Damrosch, Heather Henderson, William Chapman Sharpe ISBN: 0321106695 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: News from Nowhere by William Morris, James Redmond ISBN: 0415075815 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 1972 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Plays by George Bernard Shaw by George Bernard Shaw ISBN: 0451524349 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Howards End by E. M. Forster, David A. A. Lodge ISBN: 014118213X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Jeremy Tambling ISBN: 0140434941 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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