Poverty.

Vivid stories of Jewish immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side, told with hunger, hope, and unsparing feeling.

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Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel plunges into the hungry streets of industrial Manchester, tracing a working family through strike, love and a murder that binds masters and men in s

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A gentle girl and her failing grandfather flee into the wide world, pursued by a grotesque and gleeful villain.

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Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.

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Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.

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