The People of the Abyss

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 11/01/2009
ISBN: 9781843914501
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 4.80w x 0.50d