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The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss

London, Jack
Editions, Mint

Paperback

Series: Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $9.99

ISBN10: 1513270117
ISBN13: 9781513270111
Publisher: Mint Ed
Published: May 7 2021
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London's poverty-stricken East End, The People of the Abyss bears witness to the difficulties faced by hundreds and thousands of people every day in one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Inspired by Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) and Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, London hoped to expose the indignities faced by those left behind by industrialization. In 1902, Jack London traveled to England to live in the slums of London's East End. Hoping to learn about the lives and experiences of the city's working class, he spent three months staying in workhouses, sleeping on the streets, and lodging with a poor family in the area. Drawing on his own experience as a working-class American, and informed by his dedicated understanding of socialism, London recorded what he saw of the lives of London's poor, the hundreds of thousands of humans held back from the nation's progress toward modernization. The People of the Abyss was a popular and critical success upon publication and would inspire the young George Orwell to conduct his own research on poverty and urban life, which he recorded in his groundbreaking work Down and Out in Paris and London. Although he is known more for his contributions to fiction, London was a talented journalist whose experiences as a world traveler and worker allowed him to capture the deprivations of impoverished life while preserving a sense of humanity and advocating for much needed change. This edition of Jack London's The People of the Abyss is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

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