The children of the poor

by Jacob A. Riis

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1892 edition by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

300 pages, Paperback

First published April 23, 2001

About the author

Reports, including How the Other Half Lives (1890), of Danish-born American journalist and reformer Jacob August Riis on living conditions in city slums led to improvements in housing and education.

This Christian helped the impoverished in city of New York; much of his writing focused on those needy. In his youth in Denmark, he read Charles Dickens and James Fennimore Cooper; his works exhibit the story-telling skills, acquired under the tutelage of many English-speaking writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis

Reviews

[Josephine Ensign · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fascinating book, although not as good as How the Other Half Live. I never knew that we had a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals long before we had a similar society to prevent cruelty to children.

[Marti Martinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Difficult to read, much harder than his How the Other Half Lives.

This book and the conditions it describes (due to capitalism) not only makes me ashamed to be American but ashamed to be human.