The people of the abyss
(2014)
Nonfiction
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Hesperus Press : Made available through hoopla, 2014
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781780942063 (electronic bk.) MWT11718031, 1780942060 (electronic bk.) 11718031
LANGUAGE
English
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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
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