Length6h 21m
About this audiobook
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful existence. He grew to know and empathise with these forgotten (or ignored) people as he spoke with them and tasted the workhouse, life on the streets, ... and the food, which was cheap, barely nutritious, and foul. He writes about his experiences in a fluid and narrative style, making it very clear what he thinks of the social structures which created the Abyss, and of the millionaires who live high on the labours of a people forced to live in squalor. "... The food this managing class eats, the wine it drinks, ... the fine clothes it wears, are challenged by eight million mouths which have never had enough to fill them, and by twice eight million bodies which have never been sufficiently clothed and housed."
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GenreBusiness and Economics
Length6 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byPeter Yearsley
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 18, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2Introduction & Preface
3Chapter 1 - the Descent
4Chapter 2 - Johnny Upright
5Chapter 3 - My Lodging and Some Others
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6Chapter 4 - a Man and the Abyss
7Chapter 5 - Those on the Edge
8Chapter 6 - Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
9Chapter 7 - a Winner of the Victoria Cross
10Chapter 8 - the Carter and the Carpenter
11Chapter 9 - the Spike
12Chapter 10 - Carrying the Banner
13Chapter 11 - the Peg
14Chapter 12 - Coronation Day
15Chapter 13 - Dan Cullen, Docker
16Chapter 14 - Hops and Hoppers
17Chapter 15 - the Sea Wife
18Chapter 16 - Property vs Person
19Chapter 17 - Inefficiency
20Chapter 18 - Wages
21Chapter 19 - the Ghetto
22Chapter 20 - Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
23Chapter 21 - the Precariousness of Life
24Chapter 22 - Suicide
25Chapter 23 - the Children
26Chapter 24 - a Vision of the Night
27Chapter 25 - the Hunger Wail
28Chapter 26 - Drink, Temperance and Thrift
29Chapter 27 - the Management
30Closing Credits
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