People of the Abyss - Softcover

London, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556521677 ISBN 13: 9781556521676

Verlag: A Cappella Books, 1999

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Book by London Jack

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A facsimile of the 1903 edition, this firsthand report of the plight of the poor at the end of the 19th century in the East End of London is a powerful indictment of economic injustice in the industrialized West.

Reseña del editor:

Written when London arrived in England at the age of twenty-five, This book gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich. In her foreword to this facsimile of the 1903 edition, which includes London's original lithographs, Micaela di Leonardo concludes that the terrible conditions and human and human cost that London witnessed almost a century age are 'powerfully close, absent a few details, to the present'.

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• Verlag: A Cappella Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1556521677
• ISBN 13: 9781556521676
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320