The Tales of London Underground

ISBN-13: 9788028337667 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str.

Arthur Morrison

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Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, low-key, realistic, lower class answer to Sherlock Holmes. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing, while the character himself is a bit less arrogant and a bit more charming than Holmes. Morrison is also known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago, a tale that recounts the brief life of a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. Table of Contents: - Novels: - A Child of the Jago - To London Town - Cunning Murrell - The Hole in the Wall - Short Stories: - Tales of Mean Streets - The Street - Lizerunt - Without Visible Means - To Bow Bridge - That Brute Simmons - Behind the Shade - Three Rounds - In Business - The Red Cow Group - On the Stairs - Squire Napper - "A Poor Stick" - A Conversion - "All that Messuage" - Divers Vanities - Spotto's Reclamation - A "Dead 'Un" - The Disorder of the Bath - His Tale of Bricks - Teacher and Taught - A Blot on St. Basil - One More Unfortunate - Ingrates at Bagshaw's - Rhymer the Second - Charlwood with a Number - A Poor Bargain - Statement of Edward Chaloner - Lost Tommy Jepps - The Legend of Lapwater Hall - The Black Badger - The Torn Heart