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The people of the abyss : centenary edition

This 1902 volume offers the eminent American writer's account of life in the East End of London.

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  • "People of the abyss"
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  • "This 1902 volume offers the eminent American writer's account of life in the East End of London."@en
  • "This sociological study of London during the height of the British Empire exposes the poverty at the heart of the capital city. Based on first-hand experience, London wrote this work after posing as an American sailor stranded in the East End."@en
  • "A profound and moving piece of investigative journalism, Jack London's study of the London underworld remains, a century after it was written, a timely tale of poverty and injustice. In 1902, Jack London purchased some second-hand clothes, rented a room in the East End, and set out to discover how the London poor lived. His research makes shocking reading. Moving through the slums as one of the poor; eating, drinking and socialising with the underclass; queuing to get into a doss-house, London was scandalised and brutalised by the experience of living rough in Britain's capital. His clear-"@en
  • "Based on London's observations of the slums of London and illustrated with photographs taken by himself and others."@en
  • "In 1902, Jack London purchased some secondhand clothes, rented a room in the East End, and set out to discover how the London poor lived. His research makes shocking reading. Moving through the slums as one of the poor; eating, drinking, and socializing with the underclass; lining up to get into a flophouse, London was scandalized and brutalized by the experience of living rough in Britain's capital. His clear-eyed reflections on the iniquities of class are a shaming testament to the persistence of social inequality in modern times."@en
  • "Disguised as a down-on-his-luck American sailor, Jack London spent six weeks in the summer of 1902 living in London's East End and studying slum life. Based on his firsthand experience, The People of the Abyss is his expos of the misery and degrading conditions he found there."
  • "A l'occasion d'un reportage, Jack London décide d'explorer les quartiers interdits de Londres, la face cachée du plus puissant empire de la terre. Il s'immerge dans l'East End et mène plusieurs mois durant la vie d'un sans-logis, marchant toute la nuit car il est interdit de dormir dans les lieux publics. Publié en 1903, un récit terrifiant qui décrit froidement l'horreur de ces bas-fonds."
  • "Life in the East End of London in 1902."@en
  • "Written when London arrived in England at the age of 25, this book gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the 20th century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich. This edition issued without the original lithographs."@en
  • "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world. That which made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good; that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and distorted."@en
  • "Written when London arrived in England at the age of 25, this book gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the 20th century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich. In her foreword to this facsimile of the 1903 edition, which includes London's original lithographs, Micaela di Leonardo concludes that the terrible conditions and human and human cost that London witnessed almost a century ago are 'powerfully close, absent a few details, to the present'.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Written when London arrived in England at the age of 25, this book gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the 20th century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich. In her foreword to this facsimile of the 1903 edition, which includes London's original lithographs, Micaela di Leonardo concludes that the terrible conditions and human and human cost that London witnessed almost a century ago are 'powerfully close, absent a few details, to the present'.--From publisher description."
  • "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."
  • "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world ..."@en

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  • "Publishers' advertisements"@en
  • "Publishers' advertisements"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Reportage"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "History"@en
  • "Publicystyka amerykańska"
  • "Publicystyka amerykańska"@pl
  • "Erlebnisbericht"
  • "Libros electronicos"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Student Collection"
  • "Translations"
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Reportáže"

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  • "Ljudi sa ponora ;Gvozdena peta"
  • "Popolo dell'abisso"
  • "奈落の人びと"
  • "Le peuple de l'abime : trad. nouv. et integrale de francois postif. Introd. de francis lacassin. Pref. de l'auteur"
  • "Avgrunnens folk"
  • "Kadotuksen kansa : kuvaus Lontoon East Endistä"
  • "The people of the abyss : centenary edition"@en
  • "Kadotuksen kansa : kuvaus Lontoon East Endistä"@fi
  • "Avgrundens folk till svenskan av M. Drangel"
  • "In den Slums Lehrerh"
  • "Tīrahʹbakhtān-i jāmiʻah"
  • "Kurjalistoa"@fi
  • "Le peuple d'en bas ; Les enfants du froid ; John Barleycorn : le cabaret de la dernière chance"
  • "Il popolo degli abissi"
  • "Afgrundens Folk"
  • "Il popolo degli abissi"@it
  • "Afgrundens Folk"@da
  • "Dans les bas-fonds de Londres"
  • "La Gente del abismo"
  • "Menschen der Tiefe : Reportage aus dem Londoner East End um 1900"
  • "[The People of the Abyss.]"@en
  • "Le Peuple de l'abîme. Traduit par Paul Gruyer et Louis Postif"
  • "The people of the abyss with many illustrations from photographs"@en
  • "0 povo do abismo"
  • "Afgrundens folk"
  • "Afgrundens folk"@sv
  • "People Of The Abyss"
  • "Afgrundens folk"@da
  • "Månansiktet : Avgrundens folk"@sv
  • "The People of the Abyss"@en
  • "The People of the Abyss"
  • "The People of the Abyss. Edited and introduced by I.O. Evans"@en
  • "Die Menschen des Abgrunds"
  • "Ljudi sa ponora"
  • "People of the Abyss"@en
  • "People of the Abyss"
  • "Naraku no hitobito"
  • "Naraku no hitobito"@ja
  • "In den Slums"
  • "Le peuple d'en bas"
  • "People of the abyss"
  • "People of the abyss"@en
  • "Kurjalistoa (The people of the abyss)"
  • "Menschen der Tiefe"
  • "Menschen der Tiefe : (Einzig berechtigte Übersetzung von Erwin Magnus.)"
  • "Die Stadt der Verdammten"
  • "Le peuple d'en bas : récit"
  • "The people of the Abyss"
  • "Mieszkańcy otchłani"@pl
  • "Avgrundens folk : översättning"
  • "Oi anthrōpoi tēs avyssou"
  • "Menschen der Tiefe Reportage aus dem Londoner East End um 1900"
  • "Månansiktet : [Avgrundens folk]"@sv
  • "Le peuple de l'abîme"
  • "Le Peuple de l'abîme : Traduit de l'anglais par Paul Gruyer et Louis Postif"
  • "Il popolo dell'abisso : con una scelta di fotografie scattate dall'autore"@it
  • "Gente del abismo"
  • "Gente del abismo"@es
  • "Il popolo dell'abisso : [racconti autobiografici]"
  • "Le Peuple d'en bas"
  • "Il popolo dell'abisso"
  • "Il popolo dell'abisso"@it
  • "Die stadt der Verdammten"
  • "Le Peuple de l'abîme, traduit de l'anglais par Louis Gruyer et Louis Postif. 10e édition"
  • "Le peuple de l'abime"
  • "Le Peuple de l'abime"
  • "The people of the abyss"
  • "The people of the abyss"@en
  • "Le peuple d'en bas : recit"
  • "The People of the abyss, by Jack London"
  • "Menschen der Tiefe : Roman"
  • "Le Peuple de l'abîme"
  • "In den Slums [Hauptbd.]"
  • "Månansiktet"@sv
  • "Månansiktet"@en
  • "Ucurum insanlari"
  • "Ljudi sa ponora : gvozdena peta"
  • "Uçurum insanları"@tr
  • "Uçurum insanları"
  • "The People of the abyss"
  • "The People of the abyss"@en
  • "Avgrundens folk"
  • "Avgrundens folk"@sv
  • "奈落の人々"

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