# Children of the Tenements

An audiobook by Jacob A. Riis, read by LibriVox volunteers (9 h 42 min, English).

This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears.

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/17604)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/21583/read)