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a child of the jago a novel set in the london slums in the 1890s
this novel first published in 1896 is the story of dick perrot born and bred in the jago ; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community . 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 . only the characters themselves are fictional morrisons 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 .
paperback academy chicago publishers 1994 isbn 0897333926
abridged n isbn 13 9780897333924 number of pages 208 publisher independent pub group release date 62135769600000 series title an academy victorian classic