The People of the Abyss
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The People of the Abyss
Narrated by:
David McCran
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Narrated by:
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David McCran
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Jack London
About this listen
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several weeks, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. In his attempt to understand the working-class of this deprived area of London the author stayed as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor. London also used the expression "the people of the abyss" in his later dystopian novel The Iron Heel (1907).
©2021 Bookstream GmbH (P)2021 Bookstream GmbHI find it supremely ironic the author spent so much time proclaiming how weak and sickly the "Unfortunates" of English were while he was touring Whitechapel for this book, only for he himself to die just a decade later from chronic alcoholism.
Many of those sickly lower class slum dwellers would likely have outlived Jack London himself.
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