Child of the Jago

Name: Child of the Jago
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ISBN: 9780199605514

ISBN-10: 0199605513

ISBN-13: 9780199605514

Edition: 2012

Authors: Arthur. Morrison, Peter Miles

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'The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.'In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day, deaths are commonplace, and thieving the only way to survive. At first Dicky dreams of becoming a High Mobsman - one of the aristocrats of Jago crime - but the efforts of Father Sturt to improve conditions offer him a different path. Dicky's journey takes him through a savage but colourful community of pickpockets andcosh-carriers, where the police only enter in threes, and where murder erupts with an unusual horror and intimacy. Morrison's portrayal of the Victorian…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English