Genre: Family & Relationships
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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half by Jacob A. RIIS (1849 - 1914) Genre(s): General Fiction, Short Stories, *Non-fiction Read by: Diana Majlinger, Richard Kilmer, Guero, Malane, Cate Barratt, David Lawrence, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Arielle Lipshaw in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - 00 - Preface 00:01:12 - 01 - 01 - The Answer of Ludlow Street 00:10:45 - 02 - 02 - Kin 00:15:51 - 03 - 03 - The Wars of the Rileys 00:30:22 - 04 - 04 - Life's Best Gift 00:40:28 - 05 - 05 - Driven from Home 00:46:22 - 06 - 06 - The Problem of the Widow Salvini 01:00:04 - 07 - 07 - Peter 01:06:10 - 08 - 08 - Kate's Choice 01:16:22 - 09 - 09 - The Mother's Heaven 01:19:59 - 10 - 10 - Where He Found His Neighbor 01:32:30 - 11 - 11 - What the Snowflake Told 01:38:21 - 12 - 12 - The City's Heart 01:49:43 - 13 - 13 - Chips from the Maelstrom 02:01:24 - 14 - 14 - Heartsease 02:08:17 - 15 - 15 - His Christmas Gift 02:16:50 - 16 - 16 - Our Roof Garden among the Tenements 02:27:47 - 17 - 17 - The Snow Babies' Christmas 02:48:17 - 18 - 18 - As Told by the Rabbi 02:53:52 - 19 - 19 - The Strand from Above 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) More information: http://librivox.org/neighbors-life-stories-of-the-other-half-by-jacob-a-riis/