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The People of the Abyss

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  1. 01 - Preface; Chapter One - The Descent

    20:06

  2. 02 - Chapter Two - Johnny Upright

    7:57

  3. 03 - Chapter Three - My Lodging and Some Others

    6:53

  4. 04 - Chapter Four - A Man and the Abyss

    15:49

  5. 05 - Chapter Five - Those on the Edge

    11:30

  6. 06 - Chapter Six - Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno

    12:29

  7. 07 - Chapter Seven - A Winner of the Victoria Cross

    10:35

  8. 08 - Chapter Eight - The Carter and the Carpenter

    22:14

  9. 09 - Chapter Nine - The Spike

    26:38

  10. 10 - Chapter Ten - Carrying the Banner

    8:21

  11. 11 - Chapter Eleven - The Peg

    21:06

  12. 12 - Chapter Twelve - Coronation Day

    25:19

  13. 13 - Chapter Thirteen - Dan Cullen, Docker

    9:40

  14. 14 - Chapter Fourteen - Hops and Hoppers

    14:52

  15. 15 - Chapter Fifteen - The Sea Wife

    7:24

  16. 16 - Chapter Sixteen - Property versus People

    9:23

  17. 17 - Chapter Seventeen - Inefficiency

    11:54

  18. 18 - Chapter Eighteen - Wages

    11:33

  19. 19 - Chapter Nineteen - The Ghetto

    25:34

  20. 20 - Chapter Twenty - Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses

    17:50

  21. 21 - Chapter Twenty One - The Precariousness of Life

    18:31

  22. 22 - Chapter Twenty Two - Suicide

    13:58

  23. 23 - Chapter Twenty Three: The Children

    11:35

  24. 24 - Chapter Twenty Four: A Vision of the Night

    6:43

  25. 25 - Chapter Twenty Five: The Hunger Wail

    14:33

  26. 26 - Chapter Twenty Six: Drink, Temperance and Thrift

    13:53

  27. 27 - Chapter Twenty Seven: The Management

    11:49

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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

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I: The Descent
  3. Chapter II: Johnny Upright
  4. Chapter III: My Lodging and Some Others
  5. Chapter IV: A Man and the Abyss
  6. Chapter V: Those on the Edge
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Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and adventurer whose tales of the Yukon and the sea·The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf·made him one of the most popular writers of his time.

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Pages
178
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Peter Yearsley