Children Of The Tenements. Author: Jacob A. Riis

About this eBook

Author

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Title

Children of the Tenements

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Tenement houses -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21583

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21583

Release Date

May 23, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS — CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS — JACOB A. RIIS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.THE RENT BABY
5. 5.A STORY OF BLEECKER STREET
6. 6.THE KID HANGS UP HIS STOCKING
7. 7.THE SLIPPER-MAKER'S FAST
8. 8.DEATH COMES TO CAT ALLEY
9. 9.A PROPOSAL ON THE ELEVATED
10. 10.LITTLE WILL'S MESSAGE
11. 11.LOST CHILDREN
12. 12.PAOLO'S AWAKENING
13. 13.THE LITTLE DOLLAR'S CHRISTMAS JOURNEY
14. 14.THE KID
15. 15.WHEN THE LETTER CAME
16. 16.THE CAT TOOK THE KOSHER MEAT
17. 17.NIBSY'S CHRISTMAS
18. 18.IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
19. 19.NIGGER MARTHA'S WAKE
20. 20.WHAT THE CHRISTMAS SUN SAW IN THE TENEMENTS
21. 21.MIDWINTER IN NEW YORK
22. 22.A CHIP FROM THE MAELSTROM
23. 23.SARAH JOYCE'S HUSBANDS
24. 24.MERRY CHRISTMAS IN THE TENEMENTS
25. 25.ABE'S GAME OF JACKS
26. 26.A LITTLE PICTURE
27. 27.A DREAM OF THE WOODS
28. 28.'TWAS 'LIZA'S DOINGS
29. 29.HEROES WHO FIGHT FIRE
30. 30.JOHN GAVIN, MISFIT
31. 31.A HEATHEN BABY
32. 32.THE CHRISTENING IN BOTTLE ALLEY
33. 33.IN THE MULBERRY STREET COURT
34. 34.DIFFICULTIES OF A DEACON
35. 35.FIRE IN THE BARRACKS
36. 36.WAR ON THE GOATS
37. 37.HE KEPT HIS TRYST
38. 38.ROVER'S LAST FIGHT
39. 39.HOW JIM WENT TO THE WAR
40. 40.A BACKWOODS HERO
41. 41.JACK'S SERMON
42. 42.SKIPPY OF SCRABBLE ALLEY
43. 43.MAKING A WAY OUT OF THE SLUM

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