Zangwill's work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto". He wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892), which the late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing called "a powerful book". Contents The Melting-Pot (1909) Children of the Ghetto (1914) The Big Bow Mystery (1895) The King of Schnorrers (1893) Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898) The Grandchildren of the Ghetto (1914) Chosen Peoples (1919) The Grey Wig (1923) Ghetto Comedies (1907) Ghetto Tragedies (1899) Without Prejudice (1896) Merely Mary Ann (1904) The Big Bow Mystery- One of the earliest "locked room" mysteries. All of the clues are in the story -- but you'll be surpised by the ending! Without Prejudice- This book is a selection, slightly revised, from my miscellaneous work during the last four or five years, and the title is that under which the bulk of it has appeared, month by month, in the Pall Mall Magazine. Dreamers of the Ghetto- This is a Chronicle of Dreamers, who have arisen in the Ghetto from its establishment in the sixteenth century to its slow breaking-up in our own day.