DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Child of the Jago" by Arthur Morrison. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a leg
The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London
A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison A bestseller in its time, it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Ja
The novel opens after midnight on a hot summer night, when many of the residents of the Jago, likened to "great rats", prefer to sleep in the street to avoid th