The People of the Abyss by Jack London, Nonfiction, Social Issues, Homelessness & Poverty, (Paperback)

from AuntieCatherine

First off let me say how much I like Hesperus Press editions. They are sturdy, well-made paperbacks, whose covers have been lengthened an inch or so and then turned in, like a book jacket. The paper is good and the print excellent. I have a set of their Dickens Christmas anthologies, which includ...

from clfisha

The premise is simple in 1902 Jack London, posing as an out of work American sailor, went undercover in the poverty stricken east of London. There are much more interesting, richer and more detailed accounts of poverty out there (Henry Meyhew springs to mind) although this still an interesting re...

from Fluffyblue

The old adage, "You can't judge a book by it's cover" certainly applies in the case of this particular book. Hesperus have put together a really lovely thick cover and good quality pages. I wanted to like it, I really did, and it initially started off well, being about poverty in London in the ea...

from keylawk

Jack London remains one of the most prescient observers of human society. This work of journalism is the product of his own immersion into the slums of London after witnessing the coronation of Edward VII in the capital of the British Empire in 1902. Hindsight reveals that the British Empire was ...

from jfetting

In 1902, Jack London went to the city of London and spent a few months posing as an unemployed American sailor in the East End slums. He lived with them, on the streets and in workhouses, and in The People of the Abyss he reports back on the living conditions he found there. They are horrific. St...