The People of the Abyss by Jack LONDON read by Peter Yearsley | Full Audio Book

The People of the Abyss by Jack LONDON (1876 - 1916)
Genre(s): Business & Economics, Social Science

Read by: Peter Yearsley in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Preface; Chapter One - The Descent
00:20:06 - 02 - 02 - Chapter Two - Johnny Upright
00:28:04 - 03 - 03 - Chapter Three - My Lodging and Some Others
00:34:57 - 04 - 04 - Chapter Four - A Man and the Abyss
00:50:46 - 05 - 05 - Chapter Five - Those on the Edge
01:02:17 - 06 - 06 - Chapter Six - Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
01:14:46 - 07 - 07 - Chapter Seven - A Winner of the Victoria Cross
01:25:22 - 08 - 08 - Chapter Eight - The Carter and the Carpenter
01:47:36 - 09 - 09 - Chapter Nine - The Spike
02:14:14 - 10 - 10 - Chapter Ten - Carrying the Banner
02:22:36 - 11 - 11 - Chapter Eleven - The Peg
02:43:43 - 12 - 12 - Chapter Twelve - Coronation Day
03:09:03 - 13 - 13 - Chapter Thirteen - Dan Cullen, Docker
03:18:43 - 14 - 14 - Chapter Fourteen - Hops and Hoppers
03:33:35 - 15 - 15 - Chapter Fifteen - The Sea Wife
03:41:00 - 16 - 16 - Chapter Sixteen - Property versus People
03:50:24 - 17 - 17 - Chapter Seventeen - Inefficiency
04:02:18 - 18 - 18 - Chapter Eighteen - Wages
04:13:51 - 19 - 19 - Chapter Nineteen - The Ghetto
04:39:25 - 20 - 20 - Chapter Twenty - Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
04:57:16 - 21 - 21 - Chapter Twenty One - The Precariousness of Life
05:15:48 - 22 - 22 - Chapter Twenty Two - Suicide
05:29:46 - 23 - 23 - Chapter Twenty Three: The Children
05:41:22 - 24 - 24 - Chapter Twenty Four: A Vision of the Night
05:48:05 - 25 - 25 - Chapter Twenty Five: The Hunger Wail
06:02:38 - 26 - 26 - Chapter Twenty Six: Drink, Temperance and Thrift
06:16:31 - 27 - 27 - Chapter Twenty Seven: The Management

Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful existence. He grew to know and empathise with these forgotten (or ignored) people as he spoke with them and tasted the workhouse, life on the streets, ... and the food, which was cheap, barely nutritious, and foul.He writes about his experiences in a fluid and narrative style, making it very clear what he thinks of the social structures which created the Abyss, and of the millionaires who live high on the labours of a people forced to live in squalor. '... The food this managing class eats, the wine it drinks, ... the fine clothes it wears, are challenged by eight million mouths which have never had enough to fill them, and by twice eight million bodies which have never been sufficiently clothed and housed.'(Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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