The People of the Abyss by Jack London

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I--The Descent
• Chapter II--Johnny Upright
• Chapter III--My Lodging and Some Others
• Chapter IV--A Man and the Abyss
• Chapter V--Those on the Edge
• Chapter VI--Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
• Chapter VII--A Winner of the Victoria Cross
• Chapter VIII--The Carter and the Carpenter
• Chapter IX--The Spike
• Chapter X--Carrying the Banner
• Chapter XI--The Peg
• Chapter XII--Coronation Day
• Chapter XIII--Dan Cullen, Docker
• Chapter XIV--Hops and Hoppers
• Chapter XV--The Sea Wife
• Chapter XVI--Property Versus Person
• Chapter XVII--Inefficiency
• Chapter XVIII--Wages
• Chapter XIX--The Ghetto
• Chapter XX--Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
• Chapter XXI--The Precariousness of Life
• Chapter XXII--Suicide
• Chapter XXIII--The Children
• Chapter XXIV--A Vision of the Night
• Chapter XXV--The Hunger Wail
• Chapter XXVI--Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
• Chapter XXVII--The Management
• Challenge