The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl

That this book is accurate in its picture of condi tions and sound in its psychology is overwhelmingly attested by people who know and whose opinions are quoted in the back of this volume. But it has often been asked: How far is the heroine's story true did she actually undergo all the experiences - and through sheer neccessity - that she claims to in the book? The author answers this in her epilogue. As a matter of fact, only time, place and names are sometimes changed or transposed for obvious reasons. To quote The W orld's Work, this is a piece of fiction that is true.

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Excerpt from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl

It is now four months since the modest advent of this anonymous work into the world of books and during this time probably more space has been devoted to reviews of it than to any other publication of the year.

At first reading the public looked askance at what seemed to be another contribution to the already long list of semi-sociological novels and dilettante treatises on the condition of the poor. Then gradually it dawned on those who read that here was a remarkable book - a book that touched the heart and gripped the interest and quickened the imagination of those who knew but vaguely how the other half lives; a book big with possibilities - not revolutionary in theory or suggestion, merely a narrative of great human interest told with such vividness and power and almost terrifying realism that the comfortably housed and narrowly benevolent rubbed their eyes and said, "Can such things be in this enlightened 20th Century?"

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.