The People of the Abyss
by Jack London
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Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I. The Descent
- Chapter II. Johnny Upright
- Chapter III. My Lodging and Some Others
- Chapter IV. A Man and the Abyss
- Chapter V. Those on the Edge
- Chapter VI. Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
- Chapter VII. A Winner of the Victoria Cross
- Chapter VIII. The Carter and the Carpenter
- Chapter IX. The Spike
- Chapter X. Carrying the Banner
- Chapter XI. The Peg
- Chapter XII. Coronation Day
- Chapter XIII. Dan Cullen, Docker
- Chapter XIV. Hops and Hoppers
- Chapter XV. The Sea Wife
- Chapter XVI. Property Versus Person
- Chapter XVII. Inefficiency
- Chapter XVIII. Wages
- Chapter XIX. The Ghetto
- Chapter XX. Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
- Chapter XXI. The Precariousness of Life
- Chapter XXII. Suicide
- Chapter XXIII. The Children
- Chapter XXIV. A Vision of the Night
- Chapter XXV. The Hunger Wail
- Chapter XXVI. Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
- Chapter XXVII. The Management