# How the Other Half Lives

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- Book: [How the Other Half Lives](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacob-riis/how-the-other-half-lives) ([How the Other Half Lives.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacob-riis/how-the-other-half-lives.md))
- Authors: [Jacob Riis](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacob-riis)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-679-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1997-11-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected...