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Book High Life in New York City  Classic Reprint

Download or read book High Life in New York City Classic Reprint written by Jonathan Slick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from High Life in New York City There was a chap standing by one of the desks, with the edge of his dickey turned over his stock - like an old fashioned baby's bib, put on wrong side afore - and with his hair curled and frizzled up like a gal's. I knew in a minute that this feller couldn't be cousin John, soi went up to him and sezi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book High Life in New York  Classic Reprint

Download or read book High Life in New York Classic Reprint written by Jonathan Slick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from High Life in New York A letter' was dispatched to Weathersfield requesting Mr. Slick to forward a preface for his volume of epistles, but that gentleman instead sent the following letter, which is so full of his own peculiar humor that his friends will no doubt gladly accept of it in lieu of one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book High Life in New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780267317646
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book High Life in New York written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from High Life in New York: A Series of Letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the Church Over to Weathersfield in the State of Connecticut I don't know how I ever cum to write this ere long letter, but somehow, when I set down, pen in hand, the old natur will bile up and run on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Great Empire City  Or High and Low Life in New York

Download or read book The Great Empire City Or High and Low Life in New York written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Empire City, or High and Low Life in New York: A Mirror of the Great Metropolis The tower is not a solid mass of masonry but consists of three buttressed shafts, joined to gether up to the roadway by four connecting walls. In the Brooklyn tower the course next the caisson is seventeen feet thick; the thickness diminishes by offsets until at high water it is but ten and one-half feet. This forms two well holes, which are filled with concrete below water line, but left open up to the roadway. Spaces were also left from two feet above the arches to Within four and one half feet of the to of the tower. In one of the wide shafts is a sma l verti cal opening two feetfive in ches b three feet, connect ing wit one of these small spaces. By means of a trap and iron ladder access can always be had to the roof. Above the roadway the tower consists of three columns having an oblong section, and united at the top by arches having a s an of thirty-nine and t ee-fourths inches. The points of the arches are 114 1-3 feet above the roadway. The arches are pointed and are formed by 'the intersection of two arcs -of circles having a radius of forty-eight and one-sixth feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book High Life in New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04-22
  • ISBN : 9780461791006
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book High Life in New York written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Book Life in New York  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Life in New York Classic Reprint written by Samuel Irenaeus Prime and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life in New York But still another object may be reached by the publication of these sketches: the young in the country may learn the dangers that lurk in the city, and keep away from their reach. Life in the city has a charm that fascinates the distant, and many Who have peaceful and happy homes in the se cluded vales of the country, are often tempted to seek fortune or pleasure here. They make a sad exchange. Peace is there, and plenty and purity: here is labour, temp tation, and often bitter disappointments and trials, such as are not to be felt in the quiet walks they have forsaken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book High Life in New York

Download or read book High Life in New York written by Jonathan Slick and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book High Life in New York

Download or read book High Life in New York written by J. How and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Book High Life in New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Slick (pseud.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1861
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book High Life in New York written by Jonathan Slick (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of Mulberry Street

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  • Author : Jacob A. Riis
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-11-11
  • ISBN : 9781331564133
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Out of Mulberry Street written by Jacob A. Riis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City Since I wrote How the Other Half Lives I have been asked many times upon what basis of experience, of fact, I built that ac count of life in New York tenements. These stories contain the answer. They are from the daily grist of the police hopper in Mul berry street, at which I have been grinding for twenty years. They are reprinted from the columns of my newspaper, and from the magazines as a contribution to the discussion of the lives and homes of the poor, which in recent years has done much to better their lot, and is yet to do much more when we have all come to understand each (fiher. In this discussion only facts are of value, and these stories are true. In the few instances in which I have taken the ordering of events into my own hands, it is chiefly their se quence with which I have interfered. The facts themselves remain as I found them. J. A. R. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Life  Travels  and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Life Travels and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor Classic Reprint written by Russell H. Conwell and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor The author cannot do less than acknowledge, in this place, his great obligations to the father and mother of Mr. Taylor, to Mrs. Annie Carey, his sister, and to Dr. Franklin Taylor, his cousin, for their generous courtesy and most important assistance in gathering the facts for this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Low Life

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  • Author : Lucy Sante
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2016-03-08
  • ISBN : 1466895632
  • Pages : 541 pages

Download or read book Low Life written by Lucy Sante and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.

Book The Women of New York  Or Social Life in the Great City  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Women of New York Or Social Life in the Great City Classic Reprint written by George Ellington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Women of New York, or Social Life in the Great City Young men and women who read this work will perceive everywhere in its pages the emptiness and folly of all social crime, and the necessity for increased vigilance lest they are tempted to their ruin. To the young men who are strangers to the city and the machinations of its degraded ones to entrap them, we say, You will herein see the precipice at your feet and more easily escape it. To the young women who come hither in search of employment or friends, though poverty press you down, though obscurity throw its mantle over you and though friends frown at you, you should set your face against the first step toward the deep depths herein depicted. Middle-aged persons, prominent members of, and leaders in, society, and others, who are the parents of promising sons and daughters, will herein find revelations the knowledge of which may be of inestimable value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Book High Life in New York  A Series of Letters to Mr  Zephariah Slick  Justice of the Peace  and Deacon

Download or read book High Life in New York A Series of Letters to Mr Zephariah Slick Justice of the Peace and Deacon written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book High Life in New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan SLICK (pseud.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1844
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book High Life in New York written by Jonathan SLICK (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People We Pass

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  • Author : Julian Ralph
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-30
  • ISBN : 9780267227327
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book People We Pass written by Julian Ralph and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from People We Pass: Stories of Life Among the Masses of New York City The first seven of these short stories were published in harper's magazine. The one called Low Dutch and High is here put forth for the first time. While the stories were being published in the magazine, one critic quite honestly declared that he - or she - questioned the extent of the author's familiarity with the life he was treating. On the other hand, a talented friend wrote that The only trouble with the stories is that it seems as though the author must have at one time lived in a tenement, else he could not describe tenement scenes as he does. The truth does not hide behind either the criticism nor the praise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.