Child of the Jago
Chapter 1 of 8 Part 0: Title page and preface
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- Running time
- 6 h 20 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Algy Pug
Chapters
About this recording
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