ISBN: 9781470036997

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.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 livi… More...

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.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 (including the Whitechapel District) 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 (1907). Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Sociology>Sociology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781470036997

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], 'The People of the Abyss' is Jack London's first-hand account of his experiences in the poverty-stricken East End of London i… More...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], 'The People of the Abyss' is Jack London's first-hand account of his experiences in the poverty-stricken East End of London in 1902, including the notorious Whitechapel district (where the Jack the Ripper murders had taken place a decade previously). As a piece of investigative journalism London's book is first rate, and later inspired George Orwell to write 'The Road to Wigan Pier' and 'Down and Out in Paris and London'., Poverty & Unemployment<