The People of the Abyss by Jack LONDON read by Peter Yearsley

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The People of the Abyss by Jack LONDON (1876 - 1916)
Genre(s): Business & Economics, Social Science
Read by: Peter Yearsley in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Preface; Chapter One - The Descent
00:20:06 - 02 - 02 - Chapter Two - Johnny Upright
00:28:04 - 03 - 03 - Chapter Three - My Lodging and Some Others
00:34:57 - 04 - 04 - Chapter Four - A Man and the Abyss
00:50:46 - 05 - 05 - Chapter Five - Those on the Edge
01:02:17 - 06 - 06 - Chapter Six - Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno
01:14:46 - 07 - 07 - Chapter Seven - A Winner of the Victoria Cross
01:25:22 - 08 - 08 - Chapter Eight - The Carter and the Carpenter
01:47:36 - 09 - 09 - Chapter Nine - The Spike
02:14:14 - 10 - 10 - Chapter Ten - Carrying the Banner
02:22:36 - 11 - 11 - Chapter Eleven - The Peg
02:43:43 - 12 - 12 - Chapter Twelve - Coronation Day
03:09:03 - 13 - 13 - Chapter Thirteen - Dan Cullen, Docker
03:18:43 - 14 - 14 - Chapter Fourteen - Hops and Hoppers
03:33:35 - 15 - 15 - Chapter Fifteen - The Sea Wife
03:41:00 - 16 - 16 - Chapter Sixteen - Property versus People
03:50:24 - 17 - 17 - Chapter Seventeen - Inefficiency
04:02:18 - 18 - 18 - Chapter Eighteen - Wages
04:13:51 - 19 - 19 - Chapter Nineteen - The Ghetto
04:39:25 - 20 - 20 - Chapter Twenty - Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
04:57:16 - 21 - 21 - Chapter Twenty One - The Precariousness of Life
05:15:48 - 22 - 22 - Chapter Twenty Two - Suicide
05:29:46 - 23 - 23 - Chapter Twenty Three: The Children
05:41:22 - 24 - 24 - Chapter Twenty Four: A Vision of the Night
05:48:05 - 25 - 25 - Chapter Twenty Five: The Hunger Wail
06:02:38 - 26 - 26 - Chapter Twenty Six: Drink, Temperance and Thrift
06:16:31 - 27 - 27 - Chapter Twenty Seven: The Management
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful existence. He grew to know and empathise with these forgotten (or ignored) people as he spoke with them and tasted the workhouse, life on the streets, ... and the food, which was cheap, barely nutritious, and foul.He writes about his experiences in a fluid and narrative style, making it very clear what he thinks of the social structures which created the Abyss, and of the millionaires who live high on the labours of a people forced to live in squalor. '... The food this managing class eats, the wine it drinks, ... the fine clothes it wears, are challenged by eight million mouths which have never had enough to fill them, and by twice eight million bodies which have never been sufficiently clothed and housed.'(Summary by Peter Yearsley)
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@poetryjones7946 5 жыл бұрын

Thank god for narrator Peter Yearsley, one of the tiny percentage of great Librivox readers 🌹🙏🏼 Perfect for this book.

@patriciaque197 3 жыл бұрын

A Master in our midst👍

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

Care to do our part to add to overpopulation??? I can prove that I have no credibility or credit- meet you on the east end

@intoxicatingmooneyes9150 2 жыл бұрын

@@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 what?!?!

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

@@intoxicatingmooneyes9150 someone has to be irresponsible and maintain the integrity of the Anglo race , I’m saying

@Me-zo8yc 2 жыл бұрын

Based😂

@Zeugitai 4 жыл бұрын

Peter Yearsley reads without those dictional histrionics and that loping often precipitous intonation that most audiobook readers cannot restrain themselves from imposing on the texts thereby making them intolerable. He lets the texts speak for themselves. I for one greatly appreciate this! Thank you, Mr. Yearsley!

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz 4 жыл бұрын

This narrator gets it right. He should be a role model for all Librivox narrators. So many Librivox narrators try to make the book into their own personal radio drama, complete with histrionic delivery, bizarre folksy monologues, and exaggerated accents that exist nowhere on earth except inside their own heads. The fact that most of them also have the basic vocal quality of angry autistic hobos to begin doesn't help.

@taniaearle4457 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. My disappointment at this being a Librabox was lifted quickly. Hes fabulous 😊

@jane_uk3522 Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic narrator Peter Yearsley is ! I stayed awake all night listening to this classic I'd been meaning to read for ages. Thank you 🙏❤️

@sidv192 Жыл бұрын

Excellent narration. Was homeless myself in a major city for almost five years and now that I live in a warm/snug apt nothing brings back those memories so acutely as Mr. London. His insight into human nature is profoundly natural, only a modern screenplay by the Coen Brothers could compare.

@Air-Striegler 3 жыл бұрын

A chilling historical source, beautifully read by an excellent narrator! In 2020 we are well on our way back to the time here so well observed and described by Jack London. The misery of oligarch rule has by no ways diminished - on the contrary...

@Air-Striegler 2 жыл бұрын

@@lexibat7829 There's nothing left, but to agree with all the points you have listed here, whole heartedly.

@boltslad32 6 ай бұрын

Spot on, too close to home some of these tales.

@user-xr2et2rh8g 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! The most important book of the 21st century! Thank you, Jack London! The very essence of the so called civilised society is depicted here....

@xdearlifex 3 жыл бұрын

Finally finished this. What a fantastic book. Jack London has such empathy and writes with such passion and intelligence about an issue that plagues so called "civilized" peoples to this day. Everyone who grows up middle and upper class needs to read this

@kkknotcool 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone who grows up in the first world needs to read this. This class of person has left the first world in the 1950s for third world sweatshops. It's still going on, just a half a world away.

@jessef88 2 жыл бұрын

Suffering is a human condition

@coconutsmarties Жыл бұрын

@@kkknotcool Yup. The thousands of kids working barefoot on rusting hulks in Gujarat ship graveyards are the mudlarks and sewer rats of today.

@princessmandy1757 10 ай бұрын

They probably won't care if they do read it, because they have turned plastic. It's okay for barbie to be plastic, she's a doll. People need to get over themselves. Most rich people probably or their ancestors who handed down the large amounts of cash stepped on everybody to get there. Have fun in hell.

@johnr.b.murray3417 7 ай бұрын

...and blacks who claim reparations for ‘ancient deprivations’.

@andrealee3901 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for bringing these stories to life without all the irritating changes in voice as some readers do. However, I’m grateful for all who read for us.

@elvisparker4691 Жыл бұрын

I agree ! A little subtle change in the voice will do. You're READING the book to us, not doing a pompous, bloviating, self indulgent, one act play !

@hilaireoloughlin Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your time and talent. You are a great reader.

@coconutsmarties Жыл бұрын

@@elvisparker4691 Might you be referring to one reader in particular..

@josephwallace7287 3 жыл бұрын

Peter Yearsly is a public treasure.

@jm-rf7kl 2 жыл бұрын

This harrowing account of English poverty kept me up late, finished listening the next afternoon. Like the return of the prodigal son, London tours London with eyes wide open and is appalled at the sight. His perception of the grinding machine like nature of the processes involved was particularly impressive considering his youthfulness at the time.

@laurasalo6160 2 жыл бұрын

Jack London is such a phenomenon writer! I read The Iron Heel and I actually exclaimed (aloud to myself) "Wow, now THIS is a great book!" I can't wait to see how this one goes.

@grantperry8195 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great reading - Thank you so much.

@Ann65. 4 жыл бұрын

(3.56). Excellent Narrator! And narrative that evokes vivid images of life’s true hardships for the working class in early 1900’s.

@mikemcguinness1304 3 жыл бұрын

Late 1800s

@stevesyncox9893 2 жыл бұрын

1:29 ish, 1902

@robertafierro5592 2 жыл бұрын

This is REALLY GOOD! It's history, you know! Funny how things never change! The surroundings described remind me of the Homeless in the United States.

@theawakeningheard410 Жыл бұрын

It is about the homeless and, soon to be homeless, in the United States.

@laurasalo6160 2 жыл бұрын

[Edit: Orwell book title Down And Out in Paris and London, corrected] Great book out! Jack London is an amazing writer. And prolific! Maybe try The Iron Heel next. It's amazing! If you enjoyed this book, you might also really enjoy The Road to Wigan Pier (about coal miners) and Down And Out in Paris and London (about "tramps"/homeless), both by Orwell. They're really really good, too, very much like this book. I finished Down and Out yesterday and it was a lot like this one. It was great, I finished it in one fell swoop. It is about the experience of a tramp in the city trying to survive with other vagabonds. No wonder there was a political movement "of and for the people", for the working class, given their harsh lives! I'm struggling a lot right now (who isn't these days!) but even so, I do not suffer anywhere near how these people did. So thank you to those who fought for better lives for the working class. Thanks to technology for advancements that better our lives, and thank goodness to charity and govt that step in to help feed + house children and mothers (it would be nice if they cared for suffering men too!), and help the destitute from starving and freezinv to death. Even if we have little, I'm grateful for it. It's far better than the lives of these poor people. >>••••••

@elvisparker4691 Жыл бұрын

I read them both. And recognized the similarity here after only a few moments. London was a big influence on Orwell, I believe. Consider a book by EL Doctorow that speaks of London, Hemingway, Steinbeck & Orwell, I believe ...

@kevinholly5517 2 жыл бұрын

Two hours in and loving it👍it’s going to be heard in one sittings! Thanks for the up load! 👌👌

@albie7581 2 ай бұрын

Thank you to peter yearsly for posting and Reading this book it is a history real londoners should know about as all people of capitals of their own know Should know. P.s i have now Orderd a copy of the book Was very impressed with The reading.

@ClaudiaX2 Жыл бұрын

I've listened to this at least twice now. I greatly appreciate the timestamps.

@xdearlifex 3 жыл бұрын

You can really hear Jack's American spirit come out on chapter 12 Coronation Day. Him dunking on the brits for their royal pageantry is hilarious

@PokeRealmz 2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me a lot of "road to wigan pier" by George Orwell

@laetitialogan2017 10 ай бұрын

This was most informative and absolutely upsetting reading...but I thank you for educating me to the plight of these misfortunate people...

@natet5959 2 ай бұрын

"If one man lives in laziness, another will die in hunger". As true now as it was 120 years ago.

@richardjames8008 2 жыл бұрын

Really great stuff. As good as George Orwell down and out in paris & London

@thomasfisher5742 2 жыл бұрын

thought ORWELL was just that little more descriptive and the character description just a tad better

@jamiebond3531 2 жыл бұрын

The desperation is still alive today

@joeguitar419 3 жыл бұрын

A great story read by a fantastic narrator!

@mellee8637 6 ай бұрын

Utterly inspiring and also vitally educational. Many thanks, Mr London and Mr Yearsley, for bringing such essential wisdom to us all. As a piece of literature - this is as necessary in raising social awareness now as it was then 😞

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 4 ай бұрын

Being aware of how the world actually works is a major cause of stress and anxiety, honestly sometimes I feel I’d be better off being ignorant.

@melissapinol7279 8 ай бұрын

An absolutely fascinating, harrowing account masterfully read by Peter, who even sang the featured songs in tune!

@louisakeen9316 Жыл бұрын

A fascinating book, beautifully read.

@johneyon5257 3 жыл бұрын

a fine narrator (britisher Peter Yearsley) makes this easy to listen to - i was afraid at first cuz i thought they would use an amercian actor who would struggle to imitate the eastend accents - but it turned out to be the other way around - and Yearsley didn't bother with an american accent for Jack London's voice - he gave London's voice an brash american assurance and breeziness - and that was all that was needed - naturally - the london accents rang true

@user-mf7ou3tj7i 6 ай бұрын

The London that my great parents had to suffer is something we should never forget. If you do not care for the ill and the poor, not only does it not make you Christian. It will make you a victim.

@jl8217 18 сағат бұрын

This was the inspiration for Orwell's Down and Out In Paris And London.

@YiyiOta 7 ай бұрын

Superbly done!

@0688048 3 жыл бұрын

Jack London. OMG one of the greatest writers. What is sad is that the sitation has hardly changed for the poor. And the Alaskan and American Indians now suffer from the complexities of modernity and climate change. 5 .en to bake bread for 1000...but because of economic markets the poor are allowed to die every day.

@PokeRealmz 2 жыл бұрын

This is very reminiscent of "road to wigan pier" by George Orwell.

@mattmanson5185 2 жыл бұрын

im here beauce George Orwell mentions this book in "the road to wigan pier"

@hudson8865 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

@spoiler321 Жыл бұрын

try 1.25 speed

@micheleoreilly Жыл бұрын

What they all said! And double it!

@jjimjimmyjameshooper8945 2 жыл бұрын

If you can predict the past the present is your future.

@jacinterradaev3107 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@jamielives4466 5 ай бұрын

I feel he is about to hand me my father's lightsaber now that I'm old enough.

@2Hot2 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, the daddy of all investigative journalism. Reminds me of "Black Like Me". I wonder if he was really the first to do it. I kept thinking this would have had an explosive effect if it were read in parliament, but according to the wiki article on this book, the "eugenecist" HG Wells was "extremely critical of philanthropic efforts: "Under the really very horrible morality of to-day, the spectacle of a mean-spirited, under-sized, diseased little man, quite incapable of earning a decent living even for himself, married to some underfed, ignorant, ill-shaped, plain and diseased little woman, guilty of the lives of ten or twelve ugly children, is regarded as an extremely edifying spectacle, and the two parents consider their reproductive excesses as giving them a distinct claim upon less fecund and more prosperous people." It sounds to me like Wells is saying that the moral thing to do is to drown or at least let them die like dogs instead of helping them to survive or creating a livable environment. So people knew about it but they blamed the poor people for "being so disgusting". Real Nazis.

@gratefulobserver7742 2 жыл бұрын

I read that too. The film is also on KZfaq.

@matthewdevereux1288 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Right up there with Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London". @devereuxmatthew

@janmeyer3129 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing how little changed between this account of 1901 and Orwell’s account of 1934 - interesting that both occurred in coronation years

@matthewdevereux1288 2 жыл бұрын

@@janmeyer3129 Indeed.

@jaymogamy 5 ай бұрын

A sad song with a beautiful melody. JfOH

@weilandiv8310 Жыл бұрын

Great post!!

@peterjones6321 Жыл бұрын

The gap between richest and poorest was 19.1 years for women and 17.2 years for men in 2019. In 2002, these figures were 11.1 and 11.6 for women and men respectively. Written in 2023. Based on a study by Imperial College London between 2002-2019.

@lemfarba4827 2 жыл бұрын

Who thought this was Michael Caine reading this?

@dorkbrandon4422 Жыл бұрын

The way you hold that bottle of Gin you might as well bloody throw it at me !

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 4 ай бұрын

The more details I hear from the author the more I realize not much has changed in 120 yrs, despite the lipstick on the pig.

@mikedouglas9863 4 жыл бұрын

How come this is over an hour shorter than other uploads of the same reading? The intro in a similar video is only slightly longer (a few minutes) Thanks for the upload regardless. My goal in life is to get Peter Yearsley to be the narrator on one of my books.

@Brice23 3 жыл бұрын

People read at their own speed, and this results in some recordings going on longer than others.

@barbaraeddy5725 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing thankyoux

@harryjones84 3 жыл бұрын

Now that same abyss shines and sparkles seeping odours more apt to water the mouth than blacken the face...but might be its infernal depths are no less cavernous

@408Magenta Жыл бұрын

A reader similar to David Barnes. Both excellent readers.

@Talksin403 7 ай бұрын

This goes on in Canada but the millions. Not the thousands

@ams1897 6 ай бұрын

Ridiculous comment. Canada isn`t even poor by modern standards, never mind trying to compare with the poor of the Victorian era.

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 4 ай бұрын

@@ams1897How a man experiences homelessness is relative to the time. An unemployable homeless man is only slightly better off today and that’s dependent on where they reside. A person sleeping in a Hastings St alley feels very much like a person on London’s streets in the 1900s.

@jackiereynolds2888 2 жыл бұрын

This encourages me to reminisce on Engels, Orwell, and Sinclair. Why does Whitechapel feel like the offspring of St. Giles.

@elvisparker4691 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, The Jungle ...

@ikigaiwrenchat4189 3 жыл бұрын

They're poor but they have liberty somehow, us in 2020, we are both poor and caged.

@farnarklerbear 3 жыл бұрын

You are if you think you are.

@skippetiekenton4797 3 жыл бұрын

@@farnarklerbear Why don't you try thinking, then if you've never done it. And seeing and hearing too. 🤦‍♀️

@farnarklerbear 3 жыл бұрын

@@skippetiekenton4797 you must try growing out of your perpetual victim consciousness one day.

@skippetiekenton4797 3 жыл бұрын

@@farnarklerbear I hope you grow some brains. That's all.

@farnarklerbear 3 жыл бұрын

@@skippetiekenton4797 do you really believe that someone can read and reply to comments on KZfaq if they have no brains? Are you aware of what you are saying?

@phillipkeal2851 Жыл бұрын

How long did it take for the English to realize that it's people are their greatest asset ? When will the U.S. and others also learn ?

@ruthymccabe Жыл бұрын

They never have, and never will.

@caleyhook4091 Жыл бұрын

@@ruthymccabeSo true. We are galloping back to this shit.

@jodo1971 6 ай бұрын

Puts my claims of poverty to shame.

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 4 ай бұрын

Poverty is relative to the time. The homeless, unemployed man is only slightly better off today and that’s depending on where they live.

@reverendbluejeans1748 2 жыл бұрын

1:31:20 😡Some of us are trying to eat😡

@lazylazymule Жыл бұрын

Bookmark 35:24

@lazylazymule Жыл бұрын

45:23

@stevesyncox9893 2 жыл бұрын

1:47:46

@bennettlong6283 2 жыл бұрын

1:27:00

@colinglass1342 Жыл бұрын

a vision of hell

@laetitialogan2017 10 ай бұрын

100 %

@harrymonk6 2 жыл бұрын

At least they had some smokes

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

Work sucks , never ending cleaning and education and cleaning and education ridiculous

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

Build houses - shhhhh - don’t tell anyone

@jemussi7842 2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing 'Jack London' was a psuedonym.

@tonytannahill536 2 жыл бұрын

No, his step father was London, he real father was named Chaney, i believe.

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

Missed one

@carlaiello 2 жыл бұрын

Vic

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

53:30 bingo

@julieheywood8832 2 жыл бұрын

new york was as bad.

@Skybaby79 7 ай бұрын

The amount of strawmen built to excuse *self destructive* behaver is frustrating to no end.

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 4 ай бұрын

I don’t know if being poor qualifies as self destructive behaviour.

@johnhelm6231 5 ай бұрын

😱👍🥴🤩✅🏵️🌹🤤

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 4 ай бұрын

There’s no emoji to English translation for your comment.

@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 жыл бұрын

Why don’t they just get an education and save their money and invest in computers? No excuses