About the book
Jack London records his firsthand observations of poverty and hardship in London’s East End.
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Listen chapter by chapter
- 01 - Preface; Chapter One - The Descent · 20 minutes
- 02 - Chapter Two - Johnny Upright · 7 minutes
- 03 - Chapter Three - My Lodging and Some Others · 6 minutes
- 04 - Chapter Four - A Man and the Abyss · 15 minutes
- 05 - Chapter Five - Those on the Edge · 11 minutes
- 06 - Chapter Six - Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno · 12 minutes
- 07 - Chapter Seven - A Winner of the Victoria Cross · 10 minutes
- 08 - Chapter Eight - The Carter and the Carpenter · 22 minutes
- 09 - Chapter Nine - The Spike · 26 minutes
- 10 - Chapter Ten - Carrying the Banner · 8 minutes
- 11 - Chapter Eleven - The Peg · 21 minutes
- 12 - Chapter Twelve - Coronation Day · 25 minutes
- 13 - Chapter Thirteen - Dan Cullen, Docker · 9 minutes
- 14 - Chapter Fourteen - Hops and Hoppers · 14 minutes
- 15 - Chapter Fifteen - The Sea Wife · 7 minutes
- 16 - Chapter Sixteen - Property versus People · 9 minutes
- 17 - Chapter Seventeen - Inefficiency · 11 minutes
- 18 - Chapter Eighteen - Wages · 11 minutes
- 19 - Chapter Nineteen - The Ghetto · 25 minutes
- 20 - Chapter Twenty - Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses · 17 minutes
- 21 - Chapter Twenty One - The Precariousness of Life · 18 minutes
- 22 - Chapter Twenty Two - Suicide · 13 minutes
- 23 - Chapter Twenty Three: The Children · 11 minutes
- 24 - Chapter Twenty Four: A Vision of the Night · 6 minutes
- 25 - Chapter Twenty Five: The Hunger Wail · 14 minutes
- 26 - Chapter Twenty Six: Drink, Temperance and Thrift · 13 minutes
- 27 - Chapter Twenty Seven: The Management · 11 minutes