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The People of the Abyss

Preface 

Word Count: 428    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

y best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or

tual health, was good; that which made for less life,

time of which I write was considered "good times" in England. The starvation and lack of shelter I encountered

many as a dozen at a time, and daily marched through the streets of London crying for bread. Mr. Justin McCarthy,

ions have exhausted their means in trying to raise supplies of food for the famishing residents of the garrets and cellars of London lanes and alleys. The quarters of the S

re manhood less by political aggregations than by individuals. Society grows, while political machines rack to pieces and become "scrap." For the English, so far as manhood and womanhood

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“The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world. That which made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good; that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and distorted life, was bad.”
1 The People of the Abyss2 Preface3 Chapter 1 The Descent4 Chapter 2 Johnny Upright5 Chapter 3 My Lodging and Some Others6 Chapter 4 A Man and the Abyss7 Chapter 5 Those on the Edge8 Chapter 6 Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno9 Chapter 7 A Winner of the Victoria Cross10 Chapter 8 The Carter and the Carpenter11 Chapter 9 The Spike12 Chapter 10 Carrying the Banner13 Chapter 11 The Peg14 Chapter 12 Coronation Day15 Chapter 13 Dan Cullen, Docker16 Chapter 14 Hops and Hoppers17 Chapter 15 The Sea Wife18 Chapter 16 Property Versus Person19 Chapter 17 Inefficiency20 Chapter 18 Wages21 Chapter 19 The Ghetto22 Chapter 20 Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses23 Chapter 21 The Precariousness of Life24 Chapter 22 Suicide25 Chapter 23 The Children26 Chapter 24 A Vision of the Night27 Chapter 25 The Hunger Wail28 Chapter 26 Drink, Temperance, and Thrift29 Chapter 27 The Management