The People of the Abyss (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

London, Jack

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9781843914501: The People of the Abyss (Hesperus Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1843914506 ISBN 13: 9781843914501

Publisher: Hesperus Press, 2009

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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; queuing to get into a doss-house, 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 Britain.

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'''Jack jumped in a hansom cab and demanded the driver inject him into the slums of London among the starved and depraved population'... On every page, he bursts his shirt buttons with fury and astonishment.' --Alexander Masters

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In this 1903 publication, which influenced later socially minded authors like George Orwell, American writer Jack London (1876–1916) examines the living conditions of the impoverished residents of London's East End, demonstrating how politics had failed the vulnerable. The text is illustrated with photographs of the places and people mentioned.

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