Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful existence. He grew to know and empathise with these forgotten (or ignored) people as he spoke with them and tasted the workhouse, life on the streets, … and the food, which was cheap, barely nutritious, and foul.
He writes about his experiences in a fluid and narrative style, making it very clear what he thinks of the social structures which created the Abyss, and of the millionaires who live high on the labours of a people forced to live in squalor. “… The food this managing class eats, the wine it drinks, … the fine clothes it wears, are challenged by eight million mouths which have never had enough to fill them, and by twice eight million bodies which have never been sufficiently clothed and housed.”
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01 – Preface; Chapter One – The Descent
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02 – Chapter Two – Johnny Upright
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03 – Chapter Three – My Lodging and Some Others
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04 – Chapter Four – A Man and the Abyss
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05 – Chapter Five – Those on the Edge
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06 – Chapter Six – Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
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07 – Chapter Seven – A Winner of the Victoria Cross
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08 – Chapter Eight – The Carter and the Carpenter
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09 – Chapter Nine – The Spike
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10 – Chapter Ten – Carrying the Banner
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11 – Chapter Eleven – The Peg
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12 – Chapter Twelve – Coronation Day
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13 – Chapter Thirteen – Dan Cullen, Docker
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14 – Chapter Fourteen – Hops and Hoppers
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15 – Chapter Fifteen – The Sea Wife
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16 – Chapter Sixteen – Property versus People
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17 – Chapter Seventeen – Inefficiency
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18 – Chapter Eighteen – Wages
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19 – Chapter Nineteen – The Ghetto
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20 – Chapter Twenty – Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
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21 – Chapter Twenty One – The Precariousness of Life
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22 – Chapter Twenty Two – Suicide
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23 – Chapter Twenty Three: The Children
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24 – Chapter Twenty Four: A Vision of the Night
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25 – Chapter Twenty Five: The Hunger Wail
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26 – Chapter Twenty Six: Drink, Temperance and Thrift
