A Child of the Jago

This novel is 156 pages long but you have to have all the extra 60 pages of notes & glossaries & so forth because of this kind of thing: They and their friends resorted to a shop in Meakin Street kept by an “ikey” tailor, there to buy the original out-and-out benjamins, or the celebrated bang-up kick......more

While watching an old ep of Rumpole of the Bailey this book was the star of an ep I thought it was made up but no it really is a good classic. Like the Gangs of New York or The modern Gangbangers of America this set in later part of the dirty Gin slums of underside of London like Martin Chuzzlewit or......more

Hobsbawm sanayi devriminin toplumsal hayat üzerindeki etkilerini döneme ait bazı edebiyat eserlerinde de gözlemleyebileceğimizi söylüyor. Önerdiği eserler arasında bu kitap da var. Düzenli bir iş bulma ümidini toptan yitirmiş, geleceğe dair hiçbir öngörüsü veya beklentisi olamayan koca bir mahalle d......more

A shockingly bleak and realistic portrait of Victorian slum life in Shoreditch. Is there any way the young Dick, the main character, can keep away from the seemingly inevitable life of crime? Every man in the Jago is a criminal (petty or greater), every woman either drinks or drudges, every child kn......more