Dansk
Morrison, Arthur
(forfatter)
Tales of Mean Streets e-bog
117,05 DKK
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…
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 "e;mean streets, "e; from Lizerunt's disastrous marriage to Scuddy Lond's plausible but imperfect conversion and "e;Squire"e; Napper's quickly dispersed fortune.
E-bog
117,05 DKK
Forlag
Academy Chicago Publishers
Udgivet
01.05.2014
Genrer
Short stories
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780897339100
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 "e;mean streets, "e; from Lizerunt's disastrous marriage to Scuddy Lond's plausible but imperfect conversion and "e;Squire"e; Napper's quickly dispersed fortune.