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Tales of mean streets : Lizerunt, Squire Napper, Without visible means, Three rounds, and others

These stories are a brilliant evocatin of a narrow, close-knit communitythat 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.

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  • "These stories are a brilliant evocatin of a narrow, close-knit communitythat 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."@en
  • "This collection of short stories and vignettes brings to life the gritty coterie of outsiders who have populated the marginalized East End of London for hundreds of years. Rather than stooping to the caricatures that many other writers have lazily used when limning the lives of the poor, Arthur Morrison brings genuine depth, warmth and insight to these tales."@en
  • "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 qui."@en
  • "Without sentiment, glorification, or preaching, but with complete detachment, Morrison describes the lives of charwomen, pimps, and workers drifting down to destruction; their shabby attempts to retain respectability; and the perpetual danger of slipping into a life of crime for those living in the mean streets of London's East End."@en

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  • "Tales of mean streets : Lizerunt, Squire Napper, Without visible means, Three rounds, and others"@en
  • "Londra sconosciuta : storie dell'East End"
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