Talk:The People of the Abyss
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[edit] Title includes the word "The"
Well, I'm 99.9% sure of it. Note
- The Cornell University Library catalog shows it with "The" as part of the title: [1]
- the original clothbound book cover includes the word "The"[2], and the title is presented that way throughout the http://london.sonoma.edu website, which is hosted by a university and edited by a Jack London scholar;
- the Library of America edition, which tries to be textually careful, calls it "The People of the Abyss"[3]
Dpbsmith (talk) 18:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I forgot to put the "The" in when I started the page, and I didn't know how to fix it--sorry!JDowning 01:31, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Phrase origin
Just a note to myself. H. G. Wells's 1902 book, Anticipations, refers through the book to the lowest levels of society as "the Abyss," and he refers to "the working classes—or, more properly speaking... the People of the Abyss..." Jack London does not mention H. G. Wells in his book. Will try to find out where the phrase came from. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
