num_pages: 259
description: In the labyrinthine slums of The Jago's squalid East End, Morrison discovered not only a republic of the Victorian underclass and its nether world of crime and dissolution, but also a dark metaphor for the oppression of mind and spirit that imprisoned its inhabitants.
language: English
title: A Child of the Jago
titlecomplete: A Child of the Jago
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novels, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian, Crime
ratings_count: 715
publisher: Everymans Library