London calling

[dogfrank]

I remember reading once that Call of the Wild author Jack London once wrote a book about the poor in London's East End. Anyone know what it was called or anything about it?

[vittoria]

I found the following which might interest you from a site which I think, was www.online-literature.com/london/
'In 1902 London went to England, where he studied the backside of the British imperium: the living conditions in East End and working class areas of the capital city. His report about the economic degradation of the poor, The People of the Abyss (1903), was a surprise success in the US but criticized in England.'