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The People of the Abyss
1903 book by Jack London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Dorset Street in London's notorious Whitechapel district, photographed in 1902 for The People of the Abyss