Length6h 42m
About this audiobook
"The People of the Abyss" (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End for several weeks, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. In his attempt to understand the working-class of this deprived area of London the author stayed as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor. London also used the expression "the people of the abyss" in his later dystopian novel "The Iron Heel". (Wikipedia)
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length6 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 14, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2CHAPTER I—THE DESCENT
3CHAPTER II—JOHNNY UPRIGHT
4CHAPTER III—MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
5CHAPTER IV—A MAN AND THE ABYSS
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6CHAPTER V—THOSE ON THE EDGE
7CHAPTER VI—FRYING-PAN ALLEY AND A GLIMPSE OF INFERNO
8CHAPTER VII—A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
9CHAPTER VIII—THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER
10CHAPTER IX—THE SPIKE
11CHAPTER X—CARRYING THE BANNER
12CHAPTER XI—THE PEG
13CHAPTER XII—CORONATION DAY
14CHAPTER XIII—DAN CULLEN, DOCKER
15CHAPTER XIV—HOPS AND HOPPERS
16CHAPTER XV—THE SEA WIFE
17CHAPTER XVI—PROPERTY VERSUS PERSON
18CHAPTER XVII—INEFFICIENCY
19CHAPTER XVIII—WAGES
20CHAPTER XIX—THE GHETTO
21CHAPTER XX—COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
22CHAPTER XXI—THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE
23CHAPTER XXII—SUICIDE
24CHAPTER XXIII—THE CHILDREN
25CHAPTER XXIV—A VISION OF THE NIGHT
26CHAPTER XXV—THE HUNGER WAIL
27CHAPTER XXVI—DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
28CHAPTER XXVII—THE MANAGEMENT
29CHALLENGE
