No Mean City
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- See also No Mean City (album).
No Mean City is a 1935 novel by Alexander McArthur, an unemployed worker, and H. Kingsley Long, a journalist.
It is an account of life in the Gorbals, a run-down slum district of Glasgow (now largely demolished) with the hard men and the razor gangs.
Whatever its literary or other merits, for many years it was regarded as the definitive account of life in Glasgow, and its title became a byword.
Its title is a quotation from the Bible, where Paul the Apostle says that he is a citizen of Tarsus, which is "no mean city".
