The People of the Abyss
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01 - Preface; Chapter One - The Descent
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02 - Chapter Two - Johnny Upright
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03 - Chapter Three - My Lodging and Some Others
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04 - Chapter Four - A Man and the Abyss
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05 - Chapter Five - Those on the Edge
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06 - Chapter Six - Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
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07 - Chapter Seven - A Winner of the Victoria Cross
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08 - Chapter Eight - The Carter and the Carpenter
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09 - Chapter Nine - The Spike
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10 - Chapter Ten - Carrying the Banner
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11 - Chapter Eleven - The Peg
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12 - Chapter Twelve - Coronation Day
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13 - Chapter Thirteen - Dan Cullen, Docker
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14 - Chapter Fourteen - Hops and Hoppers
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15 - Chapter Fifteen - The Sea Wife
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16 - Chapter Sixteen - Property versus People
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17 - Chapter Seventeen - Inefficiency
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18 - Chapter Eighteen - Wages
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19 - Chapter Nineteen - The Ghetto
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20 - Chapter Twenty - Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
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21 - Chapter Twenty One - The Precariousness of Life
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22 - Chapter Twenty Two - Suicide
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23 - Chapter Twenty Three: The Children
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24 - Chapter Twenty Four: A Vision of the Night
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25 - Chapter Twenty Five: The Hunger Wail
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26 - Chapter Twenty Six: Drink, Temperance and Thrift
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27 - Chapter Twenty Seven: The Management
11:49
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a public domain work.
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About this book
To investigate poverty at the heart of the world's richest empire, Jack London disguised himself and lived among the destitute of London's East End slums, and this searing firsthand account records the hunger, squalor, and quiet desperation he found there. Combining vivid reportage with fierce social outrage, he exposes the human cost of industrial capitalism with unforgettable immediacy. A landmark of investigative journalism and social criticism, The People of the Abyss remains a powerful indictment of inequality. Compassionate and angry, it reveals London the reformer and reporter, bearing witness to suffering that respectable society preferred not to see.
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I: The Descent
- Chapter II: Johnny Upright
- Chapter III: My Lodging and Some Others
- Chapter IV: A Man and the Abyss
- Chapter V: Those on the Edge
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Book facts
- Author
- Jack London
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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- Audio read by
- Peter Yearsley