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基本説明
Introduction by Brigitte Koenig.
Full Description
The People of the Abyss is a classic work about poverty and recounts the time the author spent in London. Born in San Francisco, he became a political activist and socialist at an early age. Written after posing as an American sailor stranded in the East End of London during 1902 - sleeping in doss houses, living with the destitute and starving - this is perhaps Jack London's most important work.
As well as being a literary masterpiece, The People of the Abyss stands as a major sociological study. While other American writers were blindly celebrating the glories of the British Empire at its peak, Jack London was asking why such misery was to be found in the heart of a capital city of immense wealth.
This is a work of reportage - London lets his observations speak for themselves. A precursor to the writings of George Orwell, this book remains a standard-bearer critique of capitalism, as powerful today as it was then.
Contents
Introduction
Preface
1. The Descent
2. Johnny Upright
3. My Lodging and Some Others
4. A Man and the Abyss
5. Those on the Edge
6. Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of the Inferno
7. A Winner of the Victoria Cross
8. The Carter and the Carpenter
9. The Spike
10. Carrying the Banner
11. The Peg
12. Coronation Day
13. Dan Cullen, Docker
14. Hops and Hoppers
15. The Sea Wife
16. Property Versus Person
17. Inefficiency
18. Wages
19. The Ghetto
20. Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
21. The Precariousness of Life
22. Suicide
23. The Children
24. A Vision of the Night
25. The Hunger Wall
26. Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
27. The Management
