A Child of the Jago
'The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.'In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day, deaths are commonplace, and thieving the only way to survive. At first Dicky dreams of becoming a High Mobsman - one of the aristocrats of Jago crime - but the efforts of Father Sturt to improve conditions offer him a different path. Dicky's journey takes him through a savage but colourful community of pickpocketsand cosh-carriers, where the police only enter in threes, and where murder erupts with an unusual horror and i…
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Weitere Autoren: Miles, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-266974-2
- EAN: 9780192669742
- Produktnummer: 36544823
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 998 KB
- Abbildungen: map of the Jago
Über den Autor
Peter Miles is the editor of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for OWC.
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