The People of the Abyss

About this book

Book of Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote the experiences of living in the East End for months, staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote would be the same as would have supported an estimated 500,000 poor in London at the time.

Subjects

  • agriculture
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • british history
  • history
  • history of london
  • london (england), social conditions
  • pauvres
  • poor
  • poor, england, london
  • slums
  • social conditions
  • social life and customs