Tales of mean streets - short stories
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| Tales of mean streets - short stories |
Review:
Fifteen naturalistic stories of the London poor; hawkers and their women-folk, their fights and brutal love-making, poverty, filth, and thieving, all presented with the most graphic realism, but without anything whatever to relieve the squalor and the gloom. Lizerunt is typical, a horrible narrative of courtship and conjugal brutality.
Contents:
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."