"The People of the Abyss" is about the poor people who lived in the East End of London, England in Jack London made a study of them, even to the point of dressing like them and living for a time in the same squalid conditions. He sometimes slept on the streets; he tried and failed (as so many of /5(). · The Project Gutenberg eBook of The People of the Abyss, by Jack London This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. The People of the Abyss is Jack London’s account of the worst of the London slums and the time he spent there, dressed as and living as one of the slum-dwellers. Jack London copied Jacob Riis, who had just made a personal exploration of New York’s slums for the book How the Other Half www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 12 mins.
The People of the Abyss is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in He wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. — Jack London, The People of the Abyss [] Introduction. Jack London () made a significant contribution to Victorian slum literature. In the summer of he arrived in England to report the coronation of King Edward VII from the perspective of the London poorest inhabitants. The People of the Abyss is such a book and Jack London was such a writer. A little background. Rough-diamond sailor and self-taught journalist Jack London () was one of the huge best-sellers of his own day, churning out short stories, short novels and magazine articles by the yard in the twenty years before his death.
The People of the Abyss is Jack London’s account of the worst of the London slums and the time he spent there, dressed as and living as one of the slum-dwellers. Jack London copied Jacob Riis, who had just made a personal exploration of New York’s slums for the book How the Other Half Lives. The People of the Abyss () is a book by Jack London made up of his firsthand account of life in the East End of London. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The People of the Abyss, by Jack London This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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