Poverty & the City: The other half, written down

The literature of the slum and the tenement — Riis, Dickens, and the writers who made the invisible poor impossible to ignore.

In this collection

• The Frozen Deep
• The Price of the Harness
• A Gentle Creature
• Booby Prize
• The Riddle of Countess Runa
• A Counting-Out Song
• The Holocaust of Manor Place
• The Government of Speed
• The Mandarin's Pearl
• The Magnet
• One and One Are Two
• His only Opportunity
• The Caxtons Part I
• The of the Blue Carbuncle
• My Uncle Sosthène
• Help. the Passionate Householder to his Love
• Bobs
• Concealed Art
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