Children of the Tenements

Jacob A. Riis

• Stories
• Book language: English
• 221 pages

A collection of stories and sketches by Jacob A. Riis set in New York’s tenement districts around the turn of the twentieth century. It follows children and immigrant families through poverty, street life, and small everyday hopes. Worth listening for its humane, firsthand picture of a neglected city world.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.