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Title:The People of the Abyss
Author:Jack London
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 208 pages
Published:September 1st 2006 by Aegypan (first published 1903)
Categories:Nonfiction. History. Classics
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From the author's preface: "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the underworld of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple criteria with which to measure the life of the underworld. That which made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good; that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and distorted life, was bad."

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Original Title: The People of the Abyss
ISBN: 1598189735 (ISBN13: 9781598189735)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Jack London
Setting: London, England,1902(United Kingdom)

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In The People of the Abyss, Jack London explains in great detail the impoverished lives of thousands of citizens in 1902, London England. The author actually went to great lengths to entrench himself among the poor citizens, trading in his clothes for rags, sleeping in shelters and streets, and starving himself in some cases. His accounts are tragic and harrowing and unfortunately, timeless. London's writing paints a vivid picture of a mundane hell. Routines involving food scrounging and waiting

This is a story about what Bulwer-Lytton famously called the "great unwashed," referring to the lower classes in English society in the 19th century. London confirms that not only are they still unwashed at the turn of the century (a bare 112 years ago), but that the situation is unbelievably tragic and applies to hundreds of thousands if not several million English men and women and their offspring. He has no hesitation in ascribing the fault to criminal mismanagement by the elites of the time

If civilization has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only MISMANAGEMENT.Jack London's first-hand account of the People of the Abyss is not fictional. It is direly real. In the summer of 1902 London (the author) went to London (the city) to witness the "life" of the people in London's East End, the infamous Whitechapel District, or, what the author called the under-world of London. I have to put the word

In The People of the Abyss, Jack London explains in great detail the impoverished lives of thousands of citizens in 1902, London England. The author actually went to great lengths to entrench himself among the poor citizens, trading in his clothes for rags, sleeping in shelters and streets, and starving himself in some cases. His accounts are tragic and harrowing and unfortunately, timeless. London's writing paints a vivid picture of a mundane hell. Routines involving food scrounging and waiting

In the same vein as Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, but lacking the heart and humor that I associate with Orwell's treatment. To be fair, it's an autobiographical account of slumming it in the worst of England's poverty at the turn of the century: why should it be funny or heartwarming? However, when you compare this text with Orwell's, it reads much more like something you'd find in Rolling Stone. A shock piece intended to wake people up and make them realize the horrors of poverty.

this book was able to break my heart several times :( i literaly cried at the suffering of peoplei don't regret reading this, for i feel it had changed my perspective towards life and people .

This took me by surprise. A man who knows and a man who cares goes into London's East End and finds it a place where the population live in the most abject conditions while a couple of miles away the wealthy and great live in splendour and state. And the place at the top of the international table is granted to Britain on account of the few living in luxury while those who toiled to create the wealth live either on the very edge or in the Abyss itself.Very much a companion piece to Orwell's Road