Arthur George Morrison (1863, 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896).Tales of Mean Streets (1894)Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, (1895)A Child of the Jago, (1896)The Hole in the Wall, (1902)The red triangle, (1903)M...

In "A Child of the Jago," Arthur George Morrison intricately weaves a compelling narrative that unfolds within the gritty streets of the East End of London, a setting steeped in both urban decay and the complex social fabric of Victorian society. The novel follows the life of young Dicky Perrott, a boy trapped in the cycle of poverty and crime, as he navigates a harsh world filled with vice and desperation. Morrison's vivid and almost documentary-like prose serves to immerse the reader in ...

In "A Child of the Jago," Arthur George Morrison crafts a vivid and harrowing narrative set in the impoverished district of the Jago, a fictional representation of London's slums in the late Victorian era. Employing a gritty, naturalistic literary style, Morrison intricately weaves the lives of the impoverished with a focus on social realism, presenting the struggles of the protagonist, a young boy named Dicky Perceval, amidst a backdrop of crime, despair, and the relentless cycle of pover...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

10 Illustrations is included in this version.This book combines 5 victorian short stories being written during the 18th century by 5 classical authors incl. Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, and George Gissing. The stories reflect different troubled marriages of people.

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The Paradise Mystery [Joseph Smith Fletcher] Helen Vardon's Confession,The Singing Bone{R. Austin Freem...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

ContentsThe Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, by Rudyard KiplingIrremediable, by Ella D'Arcy''A Poor Stick,'' by Arthur MorrisonThe Adventure of the Abbey Grange, by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Prize Lodger, by George Gissing.

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Mary Shelley - D. H. Lawrence - Ellis Parker Butler - Anthony Trollope - Zona Gale - Emma Orczy - Don Marquis - Charles W. Chesnutt - Kathleen Norris - Stanley G. Weinbaum - Honoré de Balzac - M. R. James - Banjo Paterson - Bret Harte - Henry Lawson...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 31 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, John Wyndham, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Fredric Brown, Edmond ...