Children of the Tenements

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 4,357 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: New York (N.Y.) — Fiction · Short stories, American · Tenement houses — Fiction

Words worth knowing: infrequent · nohow · unnumbered · milkman · housetop · spectacular · unchecked · breakdown

[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original.

Author's spelling has been maintained.

Hyphen have been removed from God's-acre.

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