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A graphic investigation of London's slum conditions
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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
The events that happened in this book happened over one hundred years ago and yet nothing else I have read has made me feel such anger. Its a grim book but I feel something that it has to be read. Next time you gaze in wondor at the monuments of the glory of the British empire spare a thought for the one third of the British population that died in poverty.George Orwell was inspired by The People of the Abyss, which he read in his teens, and in the 1930s he began disguising himself as a derelict and made tramping expeditions into poor section of London himself, in emulation of Jack London. The influence of The People of the Abyss can be seen in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier. The British newspaper journalist and editor Bertram Fletcher Robinson wrote a review of The People of the Abyss for the London Daily Express newspaper. In this piece, Fletcher Robinson states that it would be "difficult to find a more depressing volume."[5]
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book very easy to read, and very informaive. There were so many comparisons between life just over 100 years ago and today. It made me realise how slowly we are evolving on the one hand and then again how far we have come. The book has given me lots of food for thought.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was specially printed for me. The language used is easy to read and fastmoving, but the subject matter was horrifying. Depicting pre 1900 Britain, it is hard to imagine families existing under these living conditions today. How life has changed since the Welfare state came into being.
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Readable history
This book was a most readable eye opener to the conditions the poor of London suffered in an unbelievably recent past. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Fledgling
A Classic
The People of the Abyss is a wonderful book and one that takes the reader on a journey onto the streets of East London during the Victorian era. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Chris King
Into the Abyss
In 1902 Jack London stepped from a horse drawn cab into the East End of London and with it into a world of poverty that comes straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, a somewhat... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. D. J. Arnold
New clean book
Book newly reprinted for your order As this is a book out of print .i was impressed . Good value .
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Published 12 months ago by mutti
plus ca change
Jack London, a rich American writer, takes lodgings in a poor part of the Eastend of London and "disguises" himself in second hand clothes to wander among the poor, dissolute and... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Harvey Bailey
Glimpse into the past
People of the Abyss describes in great detail what it was like to live in the East End of London during the late 19th Century from the viewpoint of an American journalist Jack... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Miss R. Olijnyk
A moving account of East London
This book provides a moving and sympathetic account of life in the East End of London during the very early part of the 20th Century. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Lee09
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