Tales of Mean Streets
Synopsis
These stories are a brilliant evocatin 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 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.
- Derechos de autor:
- 1997 Chicago Review Press
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780897339117
- Publisher:
- Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 2018-02-13T02:20:42Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.