The People of the Abyss
Autor Jack London Editat de 1stworld Libraryen Limba Engleză Hardback
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ISBN-13: 9781421814711
ISBN-10: 1421814714
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: 1st World Library
ISBN-10: 1421814714
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: 1st World Library
Notă biografică
John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
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An influential 1903 account of life among London's poorest East End residents at the dawn of the twentieth century.
An influential 1903 account of life among London's poorest East End residents at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Cuprins
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.