The Works of Arthur Morrison: The Complete Martin Hewitt Stories, The Dorrington Deed Box, Tales of Mean Streets and More (8 Books With Active Table of Contents)
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Author(s)Arthur Morrison
ISBN / ASINB007GFX8RY
ISBN-13978B007GFX8R7
MarketplaceGermany 🇩🇪
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This collection gathers together the works by Arthur Morrison in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!:
The Complete Martin Hewitt Stories:
Martin Hewitt, Investigator, The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, The Adventures of Martin Hewitt, The Red Triangle : being some further chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Other Fiction:
The Dorrington Deed Box, Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago, The Hole in the Wall
Arthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories.
Morrison was born in Poplar, in the East End of London, on 1 November 1863. Little is known about his childhood and education, though he was probably educated in the East End. By 1886 he was working as a clerk at the People's Palace, in Mile End. In 1890 he left this job and joined the editorial staff of the Globe newspaper. The following year he published a story entitled A Street which was subsequently published in book form in Tales of Mean Streets. The volume was a critical success, but a number of reviewers objected to the violence portrayed in one story, Lizerunt.
Around this time Morrison was also producing detective short stories which emulated those of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Morrison's Martin Hewitt was an imitation of Sherlock Holmes, but inverted: he was ordinary, short, and good tempered and gladly cooperated with the police. The twist was that he played both ends against the middle, sometimes as crooked as the criminals.
Three volumes of Hewitt stories were published before the publication of the novel for which Morrison is most famous: A Child of the Jago (1896). The novel described in graphic detail living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life (it was a barely fictionalised account of life in the Old Nichol Street Rookery). Other, less well-received novels and stories followed, until Morrison effectively retired from writing fiction, around 1913. Between then and his death, he concentrated on building his collection of Japanese prints and paintings.
He lived near Epping Forest, at Chingford; then Loughton (commemorated by a Blue Plaque); and High Beach, where he is buried in the churchyard.
The Complete Martin Hewitt Stories:
Martin Hewitt, Investigator, The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, The Adventures of Martin Hewitt, The Red Triangle : being some further chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Other Fiction:
The Dorrington Deed Box, Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago, The Hole in the Wall
Arthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories.
Morrison was born in Poplar, in the East End of London, on 1 November 1863. Little is known about his childhood and education, though he was probably educated in the East End. By 1886 he was working as a clerk at the People's Palace, in Mile End. In 1890 he left this job and joined the editorial staff of the Globe newspaper. The following year he published a story entitled A Street which was subsequently published in book form in Tales of Mean Streets. The volume was a critical success, but a number of reviewers objected to the violence portrayed in one story, Lizerunt.
Around this time Morrison was also producing detective short stories which emulated those of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Morrison's Martin Hewitt was an imitation of Sherlock Holmes, but inverted: he was ordinary, short, and good tempered and gladly cooperated with the police. The twist was that he played both ends against the middle, sometimes as crooked as the criminals.
Three volumes of Hewitt stories were published before the publication of the novel for which Morrison is most famous: A Child of the Jago (1896). The novel described in graphic detail living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life (it was a barely fictionalised account of life in the Old Nichol Street Rookery). Other, less well-received novels and stories followed, until Morrison effectively retired from writing fiction, around 1913. Between then and his death, he concentrated on building his collection of Japanese prints and paintings.
He lived near Epping Forest, at Chingford; then Loughton (commemorated by a Blue Plaque); and High Beach, where he is buried in the churchyard.
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