Hero Tales of the Far North

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN, 1 CHAPTER II. THE ITALIAN SLUM CHILDREN, 10 CHAPTER III. IN THE GREAT EAST SIDE TREADMILL, 35 CHAPTER IV. TONY AND HI...

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Index 451 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Theodore Roosevelt _Frontispiece_ ...

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

BY JACOB A. RIIS _Author of_ "_The Making of an American_," "_The Battle with the Slum_," "_How the Other Half Lives_," _e...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...