Green Ginger

By: Arthur Morrison

Respectability is a fragile disguise when every neighbour has a scheme, every official has an opinion and every confident boast invites disaster. Across villages, farms and inns in Essex, comic fiction grows from rural speech and the rhythms of oral storytelling, as boastful locals, eccentrics and the chronically gullible recount encounters in which appearances rarely survive close inspection. Deception drives these stories into an inventive borderland between social satire and crime fiction. Confidence tricksters, petty criminals and smugglers pursue advantage through fraud, theft and elaborate pretence, while courtship and domestic conflict prove equally vulnerable to manipulation. First-person criminal confessions sit beside framed village tales, and letters, telegrams and newspaper reports become part of the storytelling itself. One account may expose the machinery of a swindle; another may allow a seemingly successful plan to collapse beneath misplaced confidence. Beyond the criminal premises and city workplaces lie stranger domestic spaces, where fantasy, ghostly disturbance and mistaken identity extend the comedy beyond everyday misbehaviour. Commerce, law, politics, professional authority and social reform all come under scrutiny, not through abstract argument but through self-important officials, misanthropes and schemers whose certainty repeatedly betrays them. Farce, parody and reversal keep each narrative shifting, while the contrast between respectable surfaces and disreputable conduct gives the collection its sharp comic focus. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9309332751
• ISBN13: 9789309332753
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"