The People Of The Abyss: (Jack London Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508766667)

Nowhere in the streets of London may one escape the sight of abject poverty, while five minutes' walk from almost any point will bring one to a slum; but the region my hansom was now penetrating was one unending slum. The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance. We rolled along through miles of bricks and squalor, and from each cross street and alley flashed long vistas of bricks and misery. Here and there lurched a drunken man or woman, and the air was obscene with sounds of jangling and squabbling. At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot.

Author: Jack London
ISBN-10: 1508766665
ISBN-13: 9781508766667
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2015
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.32d