(This vintage book from 1926 has been digitally converted ...)
This vintage book from 1926 has been digitally converted to downloadable format with original illustrations. A great classic for the home or classroom, an interesting old-fashioned reference book, and an outstanding find. This is a short story collection by the British writer Thomas Burke. The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London. It was a popular success and features several of Burke's best-known stories such as The Chink and the Child and Beryl and the Croucher.
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1916
(Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a...)
Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London (back then still part of Kent).Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on 29 November 1886 in Clapham, a southern suburb of London that by the turn of the century had fallen out of favour with the middle-classes.Burke's father died when he was barely a few months old and he was eventually sent to live with his uncle in Poplar. At the age of ten he was removed to a home for middle class boys who were "[r]espectably descended but without adequate means to their support." When Burke turned sixteen he started working as an office boy, a job that he deeply detested. In 1901, he published his first professional written work entitled "The Bellamy Diamonds" in the magazine Spare Moments. He also edited some anthologies of children's poetry that were published in 1910–1913.
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1921
("The Wind and the Rain - A Book of Confessions" is a 1924...)
"The Wind and the Rain - A Book of Confessions" is a 1924 novel by Thomas Burke. A charming tale of childhood and innocence, this volume is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Burke's seminal work. Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 - 22 September 1945) was a British writer most famous for his "Limehouse Nights", a 1916 collection of stories based on life in the poor London district of Limehouse. This volume will appeal to all lovers of the short story form, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Burke's masterful work. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
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1924
Thomas Burke was born on the 29th of November 1886 in London, City of London, United Kingdom. Orphaned in infancy, Burke spent his first nine years with an uncle in the London working-class district of Poplar, near the Limehouse district and the Thames River docks.
Thomas educated in an orphanage after age nine, he left school at fourteen.
Thomas worked in a boarding house and in an office during the years 1901-05 then he was a secretary in a theater, he worked as a bookseller’s assistant at a literary agency in 1907-14. He passed over a wartime service, serving in Ministry of Information, American division during World War I. Fascinated by street life, he gained most of his education there rather than in school. His best friend as a youth was an old Chinese man, the model for the character Quong Lee, the Chinatown philosopher in Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown. Burke secretly visited the old man’s teashop, where he gained a knowledge of what he called, in the parlance of the times, “all the beauty and all the evil of the heart of Asia; its cruelty, its grace and its wisdom.” “In that shop,” Burke wrote In Nights in Town: A London Autobiography, “I knew what some people seek in church and others seek in taverns.”
(This vintage book from 1926 has been digitally converted ...)
1916("The Wind and the Rain - A Book of Confessions" is a 1924...)
1924(Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a...)
1921A true “son of London,” as the title of his posthumously published nonfiction book announced, Thomas Burke overcame a poverty-stricken childhood as an orphan, and grew to write more than thirty books ranging from verse to children’s literature to crime fiction to mainstream novels.
Thomas was married to Winifred Wells, in 1918.
