The People of the Abyss
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Джек Лондон. The People of the Abyss
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
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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. “You had better see the police for a guide,” they added, on second thought, painfully endeavouring to adjust themselves to the psychological processes of a madman who had come to them with better credentials than brains.
“But I don’t want to see the police,” I protested. “What I wish to do is to go down into the East End and see things for myself. I wish to know how those people are living there, and why they are living there, and what they are living for. In short, I am going to live there myself.”
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“East End,” I repeated. “Nowhere in particular. Just drive me around anywhere.”
“But wot’s the haddress, sir?”
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