... 1903 The People of the Abyss "The People of the Abyss" gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the ... poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich. 1904 The Faith of Men 1904 The Sea Wolf 1905 War of the Classes It is ... wide-ranging introduction discusse...

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... Wolf (1904), remembered from its Nietzschean hero, visionary fantasy The Iron Heel (1908), which became very popular in the Soviet Union, THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK (1911), a travel book from his journeys in South Pacific, and semi-autobiographical MARTIN EDEN (1909), London's most ambitious novel. A few months before his death, London resigned from the Socialist Party. Debts, alcoholism, illness, and fear ... of losing his creativity darkened the author's last years. He died on November 22, 1916. London's literary models: Kipling, Stevenson. He was also influenced ... on the "Ghost" as a ...

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