New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches by George G. Foster

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

George G. Foster

251 pages first pub 1850 (editions)

nonfiction history dark mysterious slow-paced
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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 ...

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