The people of the abyss / Jack London ; foreword by Alexander Masters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

London, Jack, 1876-1916, author.

Contributor:

Masters, Alexander, writer of foreword.

Series:

Hesperus classics.

Hesperus classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--England--London.

Poor.

London (England)--Social conditions.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Hesperus Press Limited, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1902, Jack London purchased some secondhand clothes, rented a room in the East End, and set out to discover how the London poor lived. His research makes shocking reading. Moving through the slums as one of the poor; eating, drinking, and socializing with the underclass; lining up to get into a flophouse, London was scandalized and brutalized by the experience of living rough in Britain's capital. His clear-eyed reflections on the iniquities of class are a shaming testament to the persistence of social inequality in modern times.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The People of the Abyss; Preface; The Descent; Johnny Upright; My Lodgings and Some Others; A Man and the Abyss; Self-neglect; Those on the Edge; Frying-pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno; A Winner of the Victoria Cross; The Carter and the Carpenter; The Spike; Carrying the Banner; The Peg; Coronation Day; Dan Cullen, Docker; Hops and Hoppers; The Sea Wife; Property versus Person; Inefficiency; Wages; The Ghetto; Coffee-houses and Doss-houses; The Precariousness of Life; Suicide; The Children; A Vision of the Night; The Hunger Wail

Drink, Temperance, and ThriftThe Management; The Challenge; Notes; Biographical Note; Also by Jack London

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-78094-208-7

1-78094-206-0

OCLC:

890755570