- Poor, history of London, British history, Pauvres
Book of Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote the experiences of living in the East End for months, staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote would be the same as would have supported an estimated 500,000 poor in London at the time.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Jack London
- First published
- December 1977
- Pages
- 206
- Publisher
- Journeyman Press, Audiocite, Classic Publishers
- Editions
- 72
- Language
- French, Spanish, fin, English
- ISBN
- 9780745314150
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“"But you can't do it, you know," friends said, to whom I applied for assistance in the matter of sinking myself down into the East End of London.”
John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London
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