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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

Jacob A. Riis

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here. I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and I, are partners, that I wish them to make their appeal to the neighbor who lives but around the corner and does not know it.(Summary from the Preface by Jacob A. Riis)

Year of Publication: 1914Genres: Essays & Short Works,Social Science (Culture & Anthropology),Family & Relationships
Running Time: 2 hours 58 minutes 50 seconds(20 chapters)
Language: EnglishRead by: Richard Kilmer (1942-2022), Guero, Malane
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00 - Preface
Diana Majlinger
1:12
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01 - The Answer of Ludlow Street
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
9:32
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02 - Kin
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
5:05
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03 - The Wars of the Rileys
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
14:31
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04 - Life’s Best Gift
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
10:06
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05 - Driven from Home
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
5:54
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06 - The Problem of the Widow Salvini
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
13:42
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07 - Peter
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
6:06
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08 - Kate's Choice
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
10:11
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09 - The Mother's Heaven
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
3:37
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10 - Where He Found His Neighbor
Guero
12:31
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11 - What the Snowflake Told
Malane
5:51
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12 - The City's Heart
Guero
11:21
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13 - Chips from the Maelstrom
Cate Barratt
11:41
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14 - Heartsease
David Lawrence
6:53
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15 - His Christmas Gift
Malane
8:33
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16 - Our Roof Garden among the Tenements
Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
10:57
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17 - The Snow Babies’ Christmas
Cate Barratt
20:29
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18 - As Told by the Rabbi
Arielle Lipshaw
5:35
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19 - The Strand from Above
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
5:03

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