Children of the Tenements - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Jacob A. Riis,

Language: English

Genre(s): Short Stories

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41 Chapter(s)

1. Preface
2. The Rent Baby
3. A Story of Bleeker Street
4. The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking
5. The Slipper-Maker's Fast
6. Death Comes to Cat Alley
7. A Proposal on the Elevated
8. Little Will's Message
9. Lost Children
10. Paolo's Awakening
11. The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey
12. The Kid
13. When the Letter Came
14. The Cat Took the Kosher Meat
15. Nibsy's Christmas
16. In the Children's Hospital
17. Nigger Martha's Wake
18. What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements
19. Midwinter in New York
20. A Chip from the Maelstrom
21. Sarah Joyce's Husbands
22. Merry Christmas in the Tenements
23. Abe's Game of Jacks
24. A Little Picture
25. A Dream of the Woods
26. Twas 'Liza's Doings
27. Heroes Who Fight Fire
28. John Gavin, Misfit
29. A Heathen Baby
30. The Christening in Bottle Alley
31. In the Mulberry Street Court
32. Difficulties of a Deacon
33. Fire in the Barracks
34. War on the Goats
35. He Kept His Tryst
36. Rover's Last Fight
37. How Jim Went to the War
38. A Backwoods Hero
39. Jack's Sermon
40. Skippy of Scrabble Alley
41. Making a Way Out of the Slum

About

This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears.

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