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The People of the Abyss is a classic work about poverty and recounts the time the author spent in London. Born in San Francisco, he became a political activist and socialist at an early age. Written after posing as an American sailor stranded in the East End of London during 1902 - sleeping in doss houses, living with the destitute and starving - this is perhaps Jack London's most important work.As well as being a literary masterpiece, The People of the Abyss stands as a major sociological study. While other American writers were blindly celebrating the glories of the British Empire at its peak, Jack London was asking why such misery was to be found in the heart of a capital city of immense wealth.This is a work of reportage - London lets his observations speak for themselves. A precursor to the writings of George Orwell, this book remains a standard-bearer critique of capitalism, as powerful today as it was then.… (altro)
Un'agghiacciante reportage delle condizioni di vita di migliaia di esseri umani nei sobborghi di Londra nei primi anni del secolo scorso, con lo stile narrativo di uno dei migliori scrittori di tutti i tempi. La sua capacità evocativa di un passato che è parte integrante della storia europea del '900 offre importanti spunti di riflessione sulla condizione umana di ogni tempo. ( )
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The chief priests and rulers cry:- /
“O Lord and Master, not ours the guilt, / We build but as our fathers built; / Behold thine images how they stand / Sovereign and sole through all our land. /
“Our task is hard—with sword and flame, / To hold thine earth forever the same, / And with sharp crooks of steel to keep, / Still as thou leftest them, thy sheep.” /
Then Christ sought out an artisan, / A low-browed, stunted, haggard man, / And a motherless girl whose fingers thin / Crushed from her faintly want and sin. /
These set he in the midst of them, / And as they drew back their garment hem / For fear of defilement, “Lo, here,” said he, / “The images ye have made of me.”
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
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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.
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There can be no mistake. Civilisation has increased man’s producing power an hundred-fold, and through mismanagement the men of Civilisation live worse than the beasts, and have less to eat and wear and protect them from the elements than the savage Innuit in a frigid climate who lives to-day as he lived in the stone age ten thousand years ago.
The People of the Abyss is a classic work about poverty and recounts the time the author spent in London. Born in San Francisco, he became a political activist and socialist at an early age. Written after posing as an American sailor stranded in the East End of London during 1902 - sleeping in doss houses, living with the destitute and starving - this is perhaps Jack London's most important work.As well as being a literary masterpiece, The People of the Abyss stands as a major sociological study. While other American writers were blindly celebrating the glories of the British Empire at its peak, Jack London was asking why such misery was to be found in the heart of a capital city of immense wealth.This is a work of reportage - London lets his observations speak for themselves. A precursor to the writings of George Orwell, this book remains a standard-bearer critique of capitalism, as powerful today as it was then.
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