The People of the Abyss: Large Print

By: London, Jack

A profound and moving piece of investigative journalism, Jack London's study of the London underworld remains, a century after it was written, a timely tale of poverty and injustice. In 1902, Jack London purchased some second-hand 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 socialising with the underclass; queuing to get into a doss-house, London was scandalised and brutalised by the experience of living rough in Britain's capital. His cleareyed reflections on the iniquities of class are a shaming testament to the persistence of social inequality in modern Britain.Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1672229723
• ISBN13: 9781672229722
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"