Jack London

The People of the Abyss

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Produktbeschreibung

An influential 1903 account of life among London's poorest East End residents at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781108064552
• ISBN-10: 1108064558
• Artikelnr.: 39304474

Autorenporträt

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American writer and activist. A pioneer of the science fiction genre, as well as a prominent figure in the Realism and Naturalism literary movements, he was one of the first American authors to become internationally known and earn considerable wealth from his writing. His most notable books include 'The Call of the Wild' (1903) and 'White Fang' (1906). He was a member of San Francisco's radical literary group The Crowd and was a passionate animal rights activist.

Inhaltsangabe

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 v. 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 wail
26. Drink, temperance and thrift
27. The management.