Bibliograph

Tales of mean streets, Arthur Morrison

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Tales of mean streets, Arthur Morrison

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Tales of mean streets

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Arthur Morrison

Summary

These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Having lived and worked there, he 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 wooing 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

Target audience

adult

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