People Of The Abyss

Nowhere in the streets of London may one escape the sight of abject poverty, while five minutes' walk from almost any point will bring one to a slum; but the region my hansom was now penetrating was one unending slum. The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance. We rolled along through miles of bricks and squalor, and from each cross street and alley flashed long vistas of bricks and misery. Here and there lurched a drunken man or woman, and the air was obscene with sounds of jangling and squabbling. At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot...

Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9786051809274
Seiten: 209
Größe: 13,5 x 21,0 cm
VÖ-Datum: 2017 - Ağustos
Kategorie: Türkische Bücher - Romane & Erzählungen - Roman - Çağdaş Dünya Edebiyatı