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First published in 1903, "The People of the Abyss" tells Jack London’s descent into London’s east end in the 1900s.
Sent to cover Edward VII’s coronation, he went in search of the real story – the stinking slums. Doffing his Yankee togs for filthy rags purchased off a barrow in Petticoat Lane, the young, vigorous, handsome, American spent seven weeks amidst foul tenements, starving children, alcoholic adults, stunted human beings and bottomless despair. London rails against the industrial machine – operating without restriction in a divided metropolis where one in every four adults died on public charity.
"The People of the Abyss" shows how far we have come, but also the dangers of a new abyss yawning as global capitalism dumps unions and enforces zero-hour contracts, and the global arms industry’s bombs drive millions from their homes.
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GenrePsychology, Biography and Memoir, History
Length6 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS
2Preface
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 Versus 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
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