Burke sets his stories in the lamplit Causeway, Pennyfields and West India Dock Road of East London, among Chinese sailors, music-hall girls, boxers and children of the slums. “The Chink and the Child,” the tale of a gentle Chinese man and an abused girl, became D. W. Griffith’s film Broken Blossoms; the book’s racial language is that of 1916.
Lurid, lyrical and once scandalous, a key portrait of a vanished London quarter. Download the free EPUB.