Tales of Mean Streets (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 100)

xxvii, [1], 251, [8] pp. Preface by H.L. Mencken. A collection of short stories focusing on the harsh and challenging lives of the working-class residents of London's East End slums. Includes: 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.