Academy Victorian Classic
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In his acclaimed and final East End novel, Arthur Morrison returns to a slightly earlier period than that of Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago, the 1860s and 1870s.
Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.
