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Book Synopsis Tales from the Moonstone Inn by : Francis W. Strapp
Download or read book Tales from the Moonstone Inn written by Francis W. Strapp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early 1900s by a down-on-his-luck Englishman living in Australia, this engaging collection of stories is now available in a collectible deluxe edition. The 2 novellas presented in this volume - The Moonstone Inn and The Man Who Tossed A Sixpence - are thrillers set in Australia and the South Pacific. Dark schemes, evil deeds and guarded secrets abound, mixed with romance, humour and local colour, not forgetting the dashing heroes and virtuous heroines. The collection includes 3 short stories - The Copenhagen Sails Tonight, The God of Luck and To Save France. Also presented are Strapp's other surviving writings, such as poems, letters to the press, and draft versions of two novella chapters. Several items in this section are exclusive to this edition. The collection also boasts photographic illustrations, a foreword by the author's great-niece, biographical information, and an afterword focusing on the author's life and the settings for his stories.
Book Synopsis Requiem for Sherlock Holmes by : Paul Stuart Hayes
Download or read book Requiem for Sherlock Holmes written by Paul Stuart Hayes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes returns in five enthralling cases. Written in an authentic style, each tale adds new layers to the legend of the great detective. When Holmes' father is arrested for the murder of a servant, Sherlock has prove his father's innocence and clear the family name. However, the fractious relationship between father and son makes the case doubly a challenge. Will they be able to put aside age-old hostilities and find the true culprit before the accused has his date with the gallows? After decades of forced absence, Holmes returns to his childhood home, in the process unlocking long-repressed feelings which force him to confront his troubled past and threaten to expose his darkest secrets. This collection also contains four short stories in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson pit their wits against their deadliest foes, culminating in a sea journey for Watson which takes an extraordinary turn that could solve the most fabled of mysteries.
Book Synopsis The Theatrical Sherlock Holmes by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Theatrical Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes takes to the stage in four entertaining play scripts written between 1899 and 1921 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. Even though Sherlock Holmes had fallen to his supposed death at the culmination of 'The Final Problem' in December 1893, it proved very difficult to keep the great detective down as this collection of theatrical play scripts proves. Presented are: SHERLOCK HOLMES - A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS (1899, by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle); THE PAINFUL PREDICAMENT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1905, attributed to William Gillette); THE SPECKLED BAND - AN ADVENTURE OF MISTER SHERLOCK HOLMES (1910, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and THE CROWN DIAMOND - AN EVENING WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES (1921, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). This collection also contains an introduction written by Paul Stuart Hayes, the author of REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES, which sets the scene for Sherlock Holmes' stage debut and focuses on each of the four productions presented in this volume.
Book Synopsis The Moonstone (Mystery Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more by : Wilkie Collins
Download or read book The Moonstone (Mystery Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more written by Wilkie Collins and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Moonstone (Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. The story incorporates elements of the legendary origins of the Hope Diamond (or perhaps the Orloff Diamond). Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
Book Synopsis A Child of the Jago - Tales from the London Rookeries by : Arthur Morrison
Download or read book A Child of the Jago - Tales from the London Rookeries written by Arthur Morrison and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, low-key, realistic, lower class answer to Sherlock Holmes. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing, while the character himself is a bit less arrogant and a bit more charming than Holmes. Morrison is also known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago, a tale that recounts the brief life of a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. Table of Contents: Novels: A Child of the Jago To London Town Cunning Murrell The Hole in the Wall Short Stories: Tales of Mean Streets The Street Lizerunt Without Visible Means To Bow Bridge That Brute Simmons Behind the Shade Three Rounds In Business The Red Cow Group On the Stairs Squire Napper "A Poor Stick" A Conversion "All that Messuage" Divers Vanities Spotto's Reclamation A "Dead 'Un" The Disorder of the Bath His Tale of Bricks Teacher and Taught A Blot on St. Basil One More Unfortunate Ingrates at Bagshaw's Rhymer the Second Charlwood with a Number A Poor Bargain Statement of Edward Chaloner Lost Tommy Jepps The Legend of Lapwater Hall The Black Badger The Torn Heart
Book Synopsis Tales of the Old London Slum – Complete Collection:4 Novels & 30+ Short Stories by : Arthur Morrison
Download or read book Tales of the Old London Slum – Complete Collection:4 Novels & 30+ Short Stories written by Arthur Morrison and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Tales of the Old London Slum – Complete Collection: 4 Novels & 30+ Short Stories (A Child of the Jago, To London Town, Cunning Murrell, The Hole in the Wall, Tales of Mean Streets, Old Essex...)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, low-key, realistic, lower class answer to Sherlock Holmes. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing, while the character himself is a bit less arrogant and a bit more charming than Holmes. Morrison is also known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago, a tale that recounts the brief life of a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. Table of Contents: Novels: A Child of the Jago To London Town Cunning Murrell The Hole in the Wall Short Stories: Tales of Mean Streets The Street Lizerunt Without Visible Means To Bow Bridge That Brute Simmons Behind the Shade Three Rounds In Business The Red Cow Group On the Stairs Squire Napper "A Poor Stick" A Conversion "All that Messuage" Divers Vanities Spotto's Reclamation A "Dead 'Un" The Disorder of the Bath His Tale of Bricks Teacher and Taught A Blot on St. Basil One More Unfortunate Ingrates at Bagshaw's Rhymer the Second Charlwood with a Number A Poor Bargain Statement of Edward Chaloner Lost Tommy Jepps The Legend of Lapwater Hall The Black Badger The Torn Heart
Book Synopsis Avengerworld - The Avengers in Our Lives by : Alan Hayes
Download or read book Avengerworld - The Avengers in Our Lives written by Alan Hayes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avengers was a revolutionary series that always playfully twisted perceptions, pushed the boundaries of its genre and defied those who wished to pigeonhole it. The team behind The Avengers never forgot its primary objective was to entertain. And entertain it certainly did, inspiring successive generations to welcome The Avengers into their hearts. Right from its foreword by pioneering television historian Dave Rogers to its afterword by Jason Whiton of SpyVibe, Avengerworld celebrates the series, its international fandom and its fans. Over the course of more than forty essays, Avengers fans the world over relate how they first encountered the series, how they grew up with it at their sides, made friends, engaged with fandom and were inspired to do extraordinary things. Proceeds from this book will be donated to Champion Chanzige, a charity organisation that exists to improve conditions for underprivileged children at a primary school in Southern Tanzania - and helps them to do extraordinary things too.
Book Synopsis Fury From The Deep - A Relic of the Old Time by : Alan Hayes
Download or read book Fury From The Deep - A Relic of the Old Time written by Alan Hayes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mysteries and Adventures by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book Mysteries and Adventures written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain in 1890 by the Walter Scott Company, Mysteries and Adventures collected together seven of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's earliest fictional works. Three years later, two international editions were issued and these featured five additional stories. Conan Doyle was not to profit from any of these ventures as, in order to have the stories carried by popular journals of the day, he had signed over all rights to their owners. Prior to their appearance in book form, several had been printed without credit and were not commonly known to be the work of Conan Doyle. The narratives in Mysteries and Adventures dance confidently across the genres, touching upon colonial life, political upheaval, the supernatural, romance and the furrow he would later plough to great acclaim, crime. These twelve entertaining tales plot Doyle's development from budding young writer to the great author that he quickly became.
Book Synopsis The Tales of A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book The Tales of A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief written by E. W. Hornung and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble, and in a subsequent volume he may or may not die on the veldt during the Boer War. Additionally, the recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is a recurrent subtext throughout the stories. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes on which he is based – he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" – professional criminals from the lower classes. Content: The Amateur Cracksman The Ides of March A Costume Piece Gentlemen and Players Le Premier Pas Wilful Murder Nine Points of the Law The Return Match The Gift of the Emperor The Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures No Sinecure A Jubilee Present The Fate of Faustina The Last Laugh To Catch a Thief An Old Flame The Wrong House The Knees of the Gods A Thief in the Night Out of Paradise The Chest of Silver The Rest Cure The Criminologists' Club The Field of Philippi A Bad Night A Trap to Catch a Cracksman The Spoils of Sacrilege The Raffles Relics The Last Word Mr. Justice Raffles E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle.
Book Synopsis ARTHUR MORRISON Ultimate Collection: 80+ Mysteries, Detective Stories & Supernatural Tales by : Arthur Morrison
Download or read book ARTHUR MORRISON Ultimate Collection: 80+ Mysteries, Detective Stories & Supernatural Tales written by Arthur Morrison and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 2110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "ARTHUR MORRISON Ultimate Collection: 80+ Mysteries, Detective Stories & Supernatural Tales in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was an English author known for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, realistic, lower class answer to Sherlock Holmes. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing, while the character himself is a bit less arrogant and a bit more charming than Holmes. Morrison is also known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, A Child of the Jago being the best known. Table of Contents: Martin Hewitt Series: Martin Hewitt, Investigator The Lenton Croft Robberies The Loss of Sammy Crockett The Case of Mr. Foggatt The Case of the Dixon Torpedo The Quinton Jewel Affair The Stanway Cameo Mystery The Affair of the Tortoise Chronicles of Martin Hewitt The Ivy Cottage Mystery The Nicobar Bullion Case The Holford Will Case The Case of the Missing Hand The Case of Laker, Absconded The Case of the Lost Foreigner Adventures of Martin Hewitt The Affair of Mrs. Seton's Child The Case of Mr. Geldard's Elopement The Case of the Dead Skipper The Case of the "Flitterbat Lancers" The Case of the Late Mr. Rewse The Case of the Ward Lane Tabernacle The Red Triangle The Affair of Samuel's Diamonds The Case of Mr. Jacob Mason The Case of the Lever Key The Case of the Burnt Barn The Case of the Admiralty Code The Adventure of Channel Marsh Novels: A Child of the Jago To London Town Cunning Murrell The Hole in the Wall Short Story Collections: Tales of Mean Streets The Dorrington Deed Box The Green Eye of Goona (The Green Diamond) Divers Vanities Green Ginger Uncollected Stories Other Works: The Shadows Around Us
Book Synopsis BRITISH MYSTERIES COLLECTION - 31 Novels & Short Stories in One Volume by : Victor L. Whitechurch
Download or read book BRITISH MYSTERIES COLLECTION - 31 Novels & Short Stories in One Volume written by Victor L. Whitechurch and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "BRITISH MYSTERIES COLLECTION - 31 Novels & Short Stories in One Volume: The Thorpe Hazell Detective Tales, Thrilling Stories of the Railway, Murder at the Pageant, A Warning in Red and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Canon in Residence Downland Echoes Murder at the Pageant Thrilling Stories of the Railway Peter Crane's Cigars The Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern The Affair of the Corridor Express Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture How the Bank Was Saved The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box How the Bishop Kept His Appointment The Adventure of the Pilot Engine The Stolen Necklace The Mystery of the Boat Express How the Express Was Saved A Case of Signaling Winning the Race The Strikers The Ruse That Succeeded Other Railway Stories A Perilous Ride The Slip Coach Mystery In the Rockhurst Tunnel The Convict's Revenge A Warning in Red A Jump for Freedom Special Working Instructions Pierre Cournet's Last Run Between Two Fires The Triumph of Seth P. Tucker A Policy of Silence In a Tight Fix The Romance of the "Southern Queen" Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He is best known for his detective stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, the first amateur railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible. Another Whitechurch's character was the spy Captain Ivan Koravitch. His stories were admired for their immaculate plotting and factual accuracy. Whitechurch was one of the first writers to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard for vetting as to police procedure.
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of H. C. McNeile (Sapper) by : H. C. McNeile
Download or read book The Complete Works of H. C. McNeile (Sapper) written by H. C. McNeile and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 6523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of H. C. McNeile (Sapper) - 14 Novels & 170+ Short Stories: Mysteries, Thriller Novels, War Stories, Detective Stories, Tales from the Army and More" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937) commonly known as H. C. McNeile or Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen generally. His stories are either directly about the war, or contain people whose lives have been shaped by it. His thrillers are a continuation of his war stories, with upper class Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Contents: Novels: Mufti Bulldog Drummond The Black Gang Jim Maitland The Third Round The Final Count The Female of the Species Temple Tower Tiny Carteret The Island of Terror The Return of Bulldog Drummond Knock-Out Bulldog Drummond at Bay Challenge Short Story Collections: The Lieutenant and Others Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. Men, Women and Guns No Man's Land The Human Touch The Man in Ratcatcher and Other Stories The Dinner Club Out of the Blue Jim Brent Word of Honour Shorty Bill The Saving Clause When Carruthers Laughed John Walters The Finger of Fate Ronald Standish The Creaking Door The Missing Chauffeur The Haunted Rectory A Matter of Tar The House with the Kennels The Third Message Mystery of the Slip Coach The Second Dog The Men in Yellow The Men with Samples The Empty House The Tidal River...
Book Synopsis VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH Ultimate Collection by : Victor L. Whitechurch
Download or read book VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH Ultimate Collection written by Victor L. Whitechurch and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH Ultimate Collection: 30+ Thrillers & Mysteries, including The Thorpe Hazell Detective Tales, The Thrilling Stories of the Railway & Other Tales On and Off the Rails" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He is best known for his detective stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, the first amateur railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible. Another Whitechurch's character was the spy Captain Ivan Koravitch. His stories were admired for their immaculate plotting and factual accuracy. Whitechurch was one of the first writers to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard for vetting as to police procedure. Table of Contents: Novels: The Canon in Residence Downland Echoes Murder at the Pageant Short Stories: Thrilling Stories of the Railway Peter Crane's Cigars The Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern The Affair of the Corridor Express Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture How the Bank Was Saved The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box How the Bishop Kept His Appointment The Adventure of the Pilot Engine The Stolen Necklace The Mystery of the Boat Express How the Express Was Saved A Case of Signaling Winning the Race The Strikers The Ruse That Succeeded Other Railway Stories A Perilous Ride The Slip Coach Mystery In the Rockhurst Tunnel The Convict's Revenge A Warning in Red A Jump for Freedom Special Working Instructions Pierre Cournet's Last Run Between Two Fires The Triumph of Seth P. Tucker A Policy of Silence In a Tight Fix The Romance of the "Southern Queen"
Book Synopsis The Greatest Works of Melville Davisson Post: 40+ Titles in One Edition by : Melville Davisson Post
Download or read book The Greatest Works of Melville Davisson Post: 40+ Titles in One Edition written by Melville Davisson Post and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 1051 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Works of Melville Davisson Post: 40+ Titles in One Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason The Corpus Delicti Two Plungers of Manhattan Woodford's Partner The Error of William Van Broom The Men of the Jimmy The Sheriff of Gullmore The Animus Furandi The Man of Last Resort (The Clients of Randolph Mason) The Governor's Machine Mrs. Van Barton Once in Jeopardy The Grazier The Rule Against Carper Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries The Doomdorf Mystery The Wrong Hand The Angel of the Lord An Act of God The Treasure Hunter The House of the Dead Man A Twilight Adventure The Age of Miracles The Tenth Commandment The Devil's Tools The Hidden Law The Riddle The Straw Man The Mystery of Chance The Concealed Path The Edge of the Shadow The Adopted Daughter Naboth's Vineyard The Sleuth of St. James Square The Thing on the Hearth The Reward The Lost Lady The Cambered Foot The Man in the Green Hat The Wrong Sign The Fortune Teller The Hole in the Mahogany Panel The End of the Road The Last Adventure American Horses The Spread Rails The Pumpkin Coach The Yellow Flower Satire of the Sea The House by the Loch Novels Dwellers in the Hills The Gilded Chair The Mountain School-Teacher Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. Post's other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton.
Book Synopsis Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels by : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Download or read book Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.
Book Synopsis A CHILD OF THE JAGO (Modern Classics Series) by : Arthur Morrison
Download or read book A CHILD OF THE JAGO (Modern Classics Series) written by Arthur Morrison and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "A CHILD OF THE JAGO (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Child of the Jago recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalization of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. At the start of the novel Dicky Perrott is about 8 years old, undernourished and roaming the streets, forced to do whatever it takes in order to survive. Dicky's affectionate nature and willingness to work provides a glimmer of hope that he can escape from the corruption of the Jago, but this hope is cynically thwarted by the avaricious Weech. The criminalizing of innocence in an environment of poverty and crime echoes the predicament of Oliver Twist. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, A Child of the Jago being the best known. Morrison is also known for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, low-key, realistic, lower class answer to Sherlock Holmes. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing, while the character himself is a bit less arrogant and a bit more charming than Holmes.
