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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
New York by GasLight and Other Urban Sketches
Author: George G. Foster
First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratumthe underground storyof life in Ne...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520067219
ISBN-10: 0520067215
Publication Date: 11/21/1990
Pages: 251
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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