The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss  (1903)  by Jack London

The book chronicles his 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.

Contents

• Author's Preface
• Chapter 1: The Descent
• Chapter 2: Johnny Upright
• Chapter 3: My Lodging and Some Others
• Chapter 4: A Man and the Abyss
• Chapter 5: Those on the Edge
• Chapter 6: Frying Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
• Chapter 7: A Winner of the Victoria Cross
• Chapter 8: The Carter and the Carpenter
• Chapter 9: The Spike
• Chapter 10: Carrying the Banner
• Chapter 11: The Peg
• Chapter 12: Coronation Day
• Chapter 13: Dan Cullen, Docker
• Chapter 14: Hops and Hoppers
• Chapter 15: The Sea Wife
• Chapter 16: Property versus Person
• Chapter 17: Inefficiency
• Chapter 18: Wages
• Chapter 19: The Ghetto
• Chapter 20: Coffee-houses and Doss-houses
• Chapter 21: The Precariousness of Life
• Chapter 22: Suicide
• Chapter 23: The Children
• Chapter 24: A Vision of the Night
• Chapter 25: The Hunger Wail
• Chapter 26: Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
• Chapter 27: The Management

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1916, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.