''Limehouse Nights'' is a 1916

short story collection A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author. A short story collection is distinguished from an anthology of fiction, which would contain work by several authors (e.g., ''Les Soirées de Médan''). The s ...

by the British writer Thomas Burke. The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on

Limehouse Limehouse is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. It is east of Charing Cross, on the northern bank of the River Thames. Its proximity to the river has given it a strong maritime character, which it retains through ...

in the East End of London. The book 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".

Film adaptations

Four films have been based upon stories collected in ''Limehouse Nights''. The story "The Chink and the Child" was turned into the 1919 film '' Broken Blossoms'' directed by

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and its 1936 remake. The story "Twelve Golden Curls" became the film '' Curlytop'' in 1924. "Beryl and the Croucher" was filmed in 1949 as '' No Way Back''BFI Film & Television Database entry for ''No Way Back'' (1949)
/ref> and set in the contemporary East End as part of the Spiv cycle of films made in the years following the

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References

Bibliography

* Newland, Paul. ''The Cultural Construction of London's East End: Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness''. 2008. * Witchard, Anne Veronica. ''Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie''. Ashgate, 2009.

External links

* 1916 short story collections {{1910s-story-collection-stub