Echo Library 2007. Paperback, 133 pp
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in
the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after
living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several
months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The
conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured
by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.