Tales of Mean Streets (Bookmasters S.) (Academy Victorian Classics)

by Arthur Morrison

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A brilliant evocation of a narrow, closeknit communitythat of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Morrison 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.
  • ISBN10 1517159660
  • ISBN13 9781517159665
  • Publish Date 1 September 2015 (first published 6 October 1983)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 84
  • Language English