The People of the Abyss

Dorset Street in London's notorious Whitechapel district, photographed in 1902 for The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London, containing his first-hand account of several weeks spent living in the Whitechapel district of the East End of London in 1902.[1] London attempted to understand the working-class of this deprived area of the city, sleeping in workhouses[2] or on the streets, and staying as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.

  1. ^ Swafford, Kevin (2015). "Among the Disposable: Jack London in the East End of London". The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 48 (2): 15–40. doi:10.1353/mml.2016.0002. JSTOR 43796031. S2CID 147931813.
  2. ^ "Richard Gray - the Lycanthorpe".