Tales of Mean Streets - An Academy Victorian Classic
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These stories are a brilliant evocatin of a narrow, close-knit community-that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Having lived and worked there, he knew that his East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. He chronicled their adventures and misadventures, their wooings and their funerals, with sympathy, humor and a sense of both the tragedies and comedies to be found in the "mean streets, " from Lizerunt's disastrous marriage to Scuddy Lond's plausible but imperfect conversion and "Squire" Napper's quickly dispersed fortune.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780897334402 |
Publisher: | Chicago Review Press |
Imprint: | Academy Chicago Publishers |
Pub date: | 30 Aug 2005 |
DEWEY: | 823.8 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 165 |
Weight: | 176g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 128mm |
Spine width: | 10mm |