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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 11 Jan \ on: Stacker Saloon
@carlosfandango, I was digging around Jack London's writing for a possible post in my dogs and cats territory, and came across this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_of_the_Abyss
If I recall you are a fan of Orwell's Down and Out In Paris and London, and I guess this book influenced Orwell. I have heard of London's book before, but never read it. Have you?
I read it when I was in my Jack London rabbit hole (looking at influences on Kerouac)
A fascinating account and beautifully written. It more directly influenced Orwell’s ‘Road to Wigan Pier’.
Another book ‘London Labour and London Poor’ came before (I think) and is a series of first person accounts and anecdotes about the time just before London was there. Both this and London’s book are required reading for people who think Victorian England was a high point of culture and advancement. And those levels of inequality are returning.
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I have seen his photos but not read his book.
I’m reminded of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ - say the name and people think muppets. If you read the original as a comment on the conditions in London at that time it’s terrifying (and was intentionally political at the time)
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I went off on a Charles Dicken’s rabbit hole once-upon-a-time. I both read and listened to audio books while driving. They are dark but fantastically good books and this is coming from a SciFi fan. Aged Parent!
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And you can tell the ones that were serialised as he really had to keep the pace going.
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I read all of them and listened to the ones I could get in audio. Yes, the ones that were serialized had different pacing than the ones published as stand alone books. David Copperfield was especially noteworthy for the action. Aged Parent!
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