THE EAST END TRILOGY: Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago & To London Town (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Old London Slum StoriesBy Arthur Morrison
Length18h 33m
About this audiobook
Arthur Morrison's The East End Trilogy gathers three landmark works of late-Victorian urban realism: Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago, and To London Town. Together they anatomize working-class life in London's East End with a style at once laconic, exacting, and morally unsentimental. Rejecting picturesque poverty and melodramatic reformism, Morrison employs sharp observation, compressed dialogue, and naturalistic detail to place his fiction within the fin-de-siècle debates over degeneration, environment, and social responsibility. Morrison was born in Poplar in 1863 and knew the geography, idioms, and pressures of East London at close range. His career in journalism sharpened his eye for fact, while his literary ambitions transformed reportage into disciplined fiction. In A Child of the Jago, influenced by the Old Nichol slum and reforming cleric Arthur Osborne Jay, Morrison created one of the period's most controversial portraits of urban deprivation and inherited constraint. This trilogy is essential reading for those interested in Victorian literature, urban history, and the origins of modern social realism. It offers neither consolation nor easy indictment, but a powerful encounter with lives shaped by poverty, locality, and limited choice.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length18 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 5, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE EAST END TRILOGY: Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago & To London Town (Annotated)
26CHAPTER IV
2Introduction
27CHAPTER V
3Historical Context
28CHAPTER VI
4Synopsis (Selection)
29CHAPTER VII
5THE EAST END TRILOGY: Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago & To London Town
30CHAPTER VIII
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6TALES OF MEAN STREETS
31CHAPTER IX
7The Street
32CHAPTER X
8Lizerunt
33CHAPTER XI
9Without Visible Means
34CHAPTER XII
10To Bow Bridge
35CHAPTER XIII
11That Brute Simmons
36CHAPTER XIV
12Behind the Shade
37CHAPTER XV
13Three Rounds
38CHAPTER XVI
14In Business
39CHAPTER XVII
15The Red Cow Group
40CHAPTER XVIII
16On the Stairs
41CHAPTER XIX
17Squire Napper
42CHAPTER XX
18"A Poor Stick"
43CHAPTER XXI
19A Conversion
44CHAPTER XXII
20"All that Messuage"
45CHAPTER XXIII
21A CHILD OF THE JAGO
46CHAPTER XXIV
22PREFACE
47CHAPTER XXV
23CHAPTER I
48CHAPTER XXVI
24CHAPTER II
49CHAPTER XXVII
25CHAPTER III
50CHAPTER XXVIII
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