Academy Victorian Classics: A Child of the Jago : A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s (Paperback)

from TheBooknerd

When this was presented to me as a "slum novel" I was prepared to hate it. I expected poverty, thugs, filth ... in short, a celebration of human indecency, like "Gangs of New York" in prose form. W...

from Jenloo82

I cannot believe this was written at the turn of the last century! A gritty, visceral down-and-out, just how I like them. Very British.

from REINADECOPIAYPEGA

This book is mch shorter than The Nether World, but follows a very similiar storyline and setting, as well as time period. The places where this book takes place truly existed in the East End of L...

from Staramber

The back bills it as Charles Dickens without the things that make you hate Dickens. Only they said it more elegantly. I'm unable to make the comparison with any conviction but I can tell you about ...

from REINADECOPIAYPEGA

This book is mch shorter than The Nether World, but follows a very similiar storyline and setting, as well as time period. The places where this book takes place truly existed in the East End of L...