Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half, credited to Jacob A. Riis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half by Jacob A. Riis. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
• Author credits: Jacob A. Riis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 2:58:50

Catalogue topics

• religion
• history
• instruction
• politics
• psychology
• short stories

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:13
2. 01 - The Answer of Ludlow Street — 9:32
3. 02 - Kin — 5:06
4. 03 - The Wars of the Rileys — 14:31
5. 04 - Life's Best Gift — 10:06
6. 05 - Driven From Home — 5:54
7. 06 - The Problems of the Widow Salvini — 13:42
8. 07 - Peter — 6:06
9. 08 - Kate's Choice — 10:12
10. 09 - The Mother's Heaven — 3:37
11. 10 - Where He Found His Neighbor — 12:31
12. 11 - What the Snowflake Told — 5:51
13. 12 - The City's Heart — 11:22
14. 13 - Chips from the Maelstrom — 11:41
15. 14 - Heartsease — 6:53
16. 15 - His Christmas Gift — 8:33
17. 16 - Our Roof Garden among the Tenements — 10:57
18. 17 - The Snow Babies' Christmas — 20:30
19. 18 - As Told by the Rabbi — 5:35
20. 19 - The Strand From Above — 5:04

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