jago

„A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and...

To jest wyznanie Laurence’a Jago. Urzędnika. Dżentelmena. Przypadkowego szpiega. Jest lipiec 1794 roku. Ulice Londynu wypełniają plotki o rewolucji. Polityczny radykał Thomas Hardy ma stanąć przed sądem za zdradę, wojna z Francuzami nie idzie po myśli Wielkiej Brytanii, a negocjacje z niezależnymi amerykańskimi koloniami stoją na ostrzu noża. W tej gorącej atmosferze splatają się losy historycznych...

A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a „cadger of suppers”, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a wealth that Mr. Dunkin squandered with no restraint but this, that it carried no other sort of wealth with...

„Green Ginger” is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a „Cunning Murrell” tale, also „The Seller of Hate”, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and „The Chamber of Light”, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are...