Morrison / Nemo Essential Novelists - Arthur Morrison

slum life in London
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-96858-655-7
Verlag: Tacet Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 70, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Essential Novelists

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Arthur Morrisonwhich are A Child of the Jago and The Hole in the Wall. Arthur Morrison was noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in London's East End at the end of the Victorian era. Novels selected for this book: - A Child of the Jago - The Hole in the WallThis is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Arthur Morrison, himself born in the East End, began his writing career in 1889 as sub-editor of the journal of the People's Palace, an institution designed to bring culture into the London slums. He also wrote detective fiction that featured the lawyer-detective Martin Hewitt, published primarily in the Strand magazine (189496); it was the most successful rival to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrison, Arthur

Nemo, August