Number 6: Jack London did write _People of the Abyss_, another good book on the subject at hand. (Perhaps you read them both & mixed them up?)

Other books by Orwell that describe poverty at some length are _The Road to Wigan Pier_ and the novel _Keep the Aspidistra Flying_, which begins with a pastiche on 1 Corinthians 13: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money,...".

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