Tales of Mean Streets

Arthur Morrison

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9780897339117
• Edition: 1

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 quickly dispersed fortune.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Works
• Lizerunt
• Without Visible Means
• To Bow Bridge
• That Brute Simmons
• Behind the Shade
• Three Rounds
• In Business
• The Red Cow Group
• On the Stairs
• Squire Napper
• “A Poor Stick”
• A Conversion
• “All That Messuage”