Páginas:240Géneros:12:HBTB:Social&culturalhistory12:0:0Sinopsis:ThePeopleoftheAbyss ,isabookbyJackLondon ,(CalloftheWild,WhiteFang) ,aboutlifeintheEastEndofLondonin1902.Hewrotethisfirst-handaccountafterlivingintheEastEnd(includingtheWhitechapelDistrict)forseveralweeks,sometimesstayinginworkhousesorsleepingonthestreets.Inhisattempttounderstandtheworking-classofthisdeprivedareaofLondontheauthorstayedasalodgerwithapoorfamily.Theconditionsheexperiencedandwroteaboutwerethesameasthoseenduredbyanestimated500,000ofthecontemporaryLondonpoor._,
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The People of the Abyss is a book by Jack London (Call of the Wild, White Fang) about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several weeks, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. In his attempt to understand the working-class of this deprived area of London the author stayed as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.
Includes 73 photographs by the author.
John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
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