Tales of Mean Streets (Academy Victorian Classics)

by Arthur Morrison (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $6.01

  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.