The People of the Abyss - Jack London - Livres - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781523721740 - 27 janvier 2016
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The People of the Abyss

Jack London

The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss

Life in the East End of London

Jack London

The People of the Abyss is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. 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. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.

There had been several previous accounts of slum conditions in England, most notably The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels. However, most of these were based on secondhand sources. Jack London's account, however, was based on the firsthand experience of a very successful writer, and his account proved to be more popular.

Jacob Riis's sensational How the Other Half Lives (1890) has been suggested as a source of inspiration for The People of the Abyss. A contemporary advertisement for Jack London's book said that it "tingles" with the "directness only possible from a man who knows London as Jacob Riis knows New York," suggesting that his publisher, at least, perceived a resemblance.

When Jack London wrote The People of the Abyss, the phrase "the Abyss," with its hellish connotation, was in wide use to refer to the life of the urban poor. H. G. Wells's popular 1901 book, Anticipations, uses the expression in this sense some twenty-five times, and uses the phrase "the People of the Abyss" eight times. One writer, analyzing The Iron Heel, refers to "the People of the Abyss" as "H. G. Wells' phrase."

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 27 janvier 2016
ISBN13 9781523721740
Éditeurs Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 138
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 8 mm   ·   254 g
Langue et grammaire English  

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