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)
51CHAPTER XXIX
2Introduction
52CHAPTER XXX
3Historical Context
53CHAPTER XXXI
4Synopsis (Selection)
54CHAPTER XXXII
5THE EAST END TRILOGY: Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago & To London Town
55CHAPTER XXXIII
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6TALES OF MEAN STREETS
56CHAPTER XXXIV
7The Street
57CHAPTER XXXV
8Lizerunt
58CHAPTER XXXVI
9Without Visible Means
59CHAPTER XXXVII
10To Bow Bridge
60TO LONDON TOWN
11That Brute Simmons
61CHAPTER I
12Behind the Shade
62CHAPTER II
13Three Rounds
63CHAPTER III
14In Business
64CHAPTER IV
15The Red Cow Group
65CHAPTER V
16On the Stairs
66CHAPTER VI
17Squire Napper
67CHAPTER VII
18"A Poor Stick"
68CHAPTER VIII
19A Conversion
69CHAPTER IX
20"All that Messuage"
70CHAPTER X
21A CHILD OF THE JAGO
71CHAPTER XI
22PREFACE
72CHAPTER XII
23CHAPTER I
73CHAPTER XIII
24CHAPTER II
74CHAPTER XIV
25CHAPTER III
75CHAPTER XV
26CHAPTER IV
76CHAPTER XVI
27CHAPTER V
77CHAPTER XVII
28CHAPTER VI
78CHAPTER XVIII
29CHAPTER VII
79CHAPTER XIX
30CHAPTER VIII
80CHAPTER XX
31CHAPTER IX
81CHAPTER XXI
32CHAPTER X
82CHAPTER XXII
33CHAPTER XI
83CHAPTER XXIII
34CHAPTER XII
84CHAPTER XXIV
35CHAPTER XIII
85CHAPTER XXV
36CHAPTER XIV
86CHAPTER XXVI
37CHAPTER XV
87CHAPTER XXVII
38CHAPTER XVI
88CHAPTER XXVIII
39CHAPTER XVII
89CHAPTER XXIX
40CHAPTER XVIII
90CHAPTER XXX
41CHAPTER XIX
91CHAPTER XXXI
42CHAPTER XX
92CHAPTER XXXII
43CHAPTER XXI
93CHAPTER XXXIII
44CHAPTER XXII
94CHAPTER XXXIV
45CHAPTER XXIII
95CHAPTER XXXV
46CHAPTER XXIV
96CHAPTER XXXVI
47CHAPTER XXV
97Analysis
48CHAPTER XXVI
98Reflection
49CHAPTER XXVII
99Memorable Quotes
50CHAPTER XXVIII
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