A Child of the Jago

A Child of the Jago

Oxford World’s Classics

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.

FC; HBTB

823.8

Arthur Morrison, Peter Miles – Oxford University Press