Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
Jacob A. Riis
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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) (2 hr 58 min)
Chapters
00 - Preface | 1:12 | Read by Diana Majlinger |
01 - The Answer of Ludlow Street | 9:32 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
02 - Kin | 5:05 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
03 - The Wars of the Rileys | 14:31 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
04 - Life’s Best Gift | 10:06 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
05 - Driven from Home | 5:54 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
06 - The Problem of the Widow Salvini | 13:42 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
07 - Peter | 6:06 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
08 - Kate's Choice | 10:11 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
09 - The Mother's Heaven | 3:37 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
10 - Where He Found His Neighbor | 12:31 | Read by Guero |
11 - What the Snowflake Told | 5:51 | Read by Malane |
12 - The City's Heart | 11:21 | Read by Guero |
13 - Chips from the Maelstrom | 11:41 | Read by Cate Barratt |
14 - Heartsease | 6:53 | Read by David Lawrence |
15 - His Christmas Gift | 8:33 | Read by Malane |
16 - Our Roof Garden among the Tenements | 10:57 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
17 - The Snow Babies’ Christmas | 20:29 | Read by Cate Barratt |
18 - As Told by the Rabbi | 5:35 | Read by Arielle Lipshaw |
19 - The Strand from Above | 5:03 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
Great stories of life and how it was. I laughed and cried! Thanks again to the volunteers who read this book.