The People of the Abyss: 100th Anniversary Collection, Paperback

A wonderful illustrated version with all 80 photographs from the first edition

To understand this work, you need an edition with all of the photographs. Different from most of his other works, The People of the Abyss chronicles Jack London's 3-month stay in the slums of East End London in 1902. To gather the information for the book, he lived undercover in some of the worst parts of London, staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. At a time when England was a powerful and rich nation, hundreds of thousands were living in abject poverty.