The People of the Abyss

by Jack London

Contents

• Author's Preface
• Chapter 1: The Descent
• Chapter 2: Johnny Upright
• Chapter 3: My Lodging and Some Others
• Chapter 4: A Man and the Abyss
• Chapter 5: Those on the Edge
• Chapter 6: Frying Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
• Chapter 7: A Winner of the Victoria Cross
• Chapter 8: The Carter and the Carpenter
• Chapter 9: The Spike
• Chapter 10: Carrying the Banner
• Chapter 11: The Peg
• Chapter 12: Coronation Day
• Chapter 13: Dan Cullen, Docker
• Chapter 14: Hops and Hoppers
• Chapter 15: The Sea Wife
• Chapter 16: Property versus Person
• Chapter 17: Inefficiency
• Chapter 18: Wages
• Chapter 19: The Ghetto
• Chapter 20: Coffee-houses and Doss-houses
• Chapter 21: The Precariousness of Life
• Chapter 22: Suicide
• Chapter 23: The Children
• Chapter 24: A Vision of the Night
• Chapter 25: The Hunger Wail
• Chapter 26: Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
• Chapter 27: The Management