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The beloved author of such works as The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf turns his keen eye to social realism in The People of the Abyss. In this fascinating volume, Jack London recounts his first-hand experiences living in the slums of the city that bears his name. Read the non-fiction account that brought world-wide attention to the appalling conditions facing England's working poor in the early twentieth century.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- The People of the Abyss
- Preface
- Chapter I The Descent
- Chapter II Johnny Upright
- Chapter III My Lodging and Some Others
- Chapter IV A Man and the Abyss
- Chapter V Those on the Edge
- Chapter VI Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
- Chapter VII A Winner of the Victoria Cross
- Chapter VIII The Carter and the Carpenter
- Chapter IX The Spike
- Chapter X Carrying the Banner
- Chapter XI The Peg
- Chapter XII Coronation Day
- Chapter XIII Dan Cullen, Docker
- Chapter XIV Hops and Hoppers
- Chapter XV The Sea Wife
- Chapter XVI Property Versus Person
- Chapter XVII Inefficiency
- Chapter XVIII Wages
- Chapter XIX The Ghetto
- Chapter XX Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
- Chapter XXI The Precariousness of Life
- Chapter XXII Suicide
- Chapter XXIII The Children
- Chapter XXIV A Vision of the Night
- Chapter XXV The Hunger Wail
- Chapter XXVI Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
- Chapter XXVII The Management
- Challenge
- Endnotes
