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Podcast: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Episode: PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS by JACK LONDON
Description: Todays story actually consists of the preface and first two chapters of jack London's book "People of the Abyss". which gives his first-hand account of the devastating poverty which was being suffered in London during the rise of the industrial age. At this time there were 300,000 people in London living in one room tenements, King Edward VII had just been coronated, and never had there been a greater division in society between the haves and the have nots. You can find the rest of the book, which is free at Gutenberg.org, here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1688/1688-h/1688...