Project Gutenberg 2007-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 160 Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) 1849 1914 Riis, Jacob August Relyea, C. M. (Charles M.) 1863 1932 Relyea, Charles M. Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark) Reylea, C. M. 03028289 Children of the Tenements The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Children of the Tenements" by Jacob A. Riis is a collection of stories that sheds light on the lives of impoverished children in the tenement districts of New York, written in the late 19th century. The narrative highlights the struggles, hopes, and resilience of these children and their families amidst the harsh realities of urban poverty. Through a series of poignant vignettes, Riis aims to portray the pressing social issues of his time, emphasizing the humanity and dignity of those living in the margins of society. The opening portion of the text introduces us to Adam Grunschlag, a Jewish pedler facing overwhelming difficulties as he navigates life in a cramped and unhealthy basement with his wife and young son, Abe. As his wife becomes gravely ill, he wrestles with the harsh realities of poverty, ultimately deciding to take desperate measures for the well-being of his family, including trying to return an infant, referred to as the “rent baby,” to its rightful parents. This part of the narrative establishes a deep sense of empathy and urgency, foreshadowing the struggles and sacrifices made by these characters in their quest for a better life. The emotional challenges they face are emblematic of the broader plight of many families in similar circumstances, setting the tone for the stories that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Short stories, American Tenement houses -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 541732 541651 2024-09-09T10:19:14.574517 2023-09-09T12:25:19.723741 text/html text/html 543622 2007-05-23T09:04:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 256031 2007-05-23T09:04:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 320133 2024-09-09T10:19:22.419455 application/epub+zip 323516 2024-09-09T10:19:16.355493 application/epub+zip 276039 2024-09-09T10:19:15.301505 application/epub+zip 511299 2024-09-09T10:19:27.264452 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 461712 2024-09-09T10:19:21.481467 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 414524 2022-09-10T08:13:37.860644 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 502726 502499 2024-09-09T10:19:13.749014 2023-09-09T12:25:18.913724 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 502542 2007-05-23T09:04:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 200016 2007-05-23T09:04:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 502536 2007-05-23T09:04:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 199971 2007-05-23T09:04:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22832 2024-09-09T10:19:27.419431 application/rdf+xml 12508 2024-09-09T10:19:15.671505 image/jpeg 3750 2024-09-09T10:19:15.489484 image/jpeg 304953 2024-09-09T10:19:14.625559 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia