A Child of the Jago

Zusatztext Our horrified fascination remains unabated Informationen zum Autor Peter Miles is the editor of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for OWC. Klappentext In the slum streets of the Jago, Dicky Perrott lives a life of petty crime and violence. With Father Sturt's arrival, he sees how his horizons might alter. Dicky's story highlights the terrible conditions of the Victorian underworld and the social policy that underpinned it. This edition provides rich contextual background material. Zusammenfassung In the slum streets of the Jago, Dicky Perrott lives a life of petty crime and violence. With Father Sturt's arrival, he sees how his horizons might alter. Dicky's story highlights the terrible conditions of the Victorian underworld and the social policy that underpinned it. This edition provides rich contextual background material.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Miles, Arthur Morrison
• Assisted by: Peter Miles (Editor), Peter (Emeritus Fellow of the English Association Miles (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9780199605514
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960551-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Classic fiction: general and literary