Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska
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"Hungry Hearts" by Anzia Yezierska is a collection of short stories published in 1920. Through the eyes of fictional Jewish women, these stories explore the immigrant experience in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Each tale captures a different struggle—loneliness, poverty, shattered dreams, and the harsh gap between hope and reality. From factory workers to mothers, these characters face grinding hardship while searching for love, dignity, and belonging
in their new American home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970 |
|---|---|
| Title | Hungry Hearts |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Hearts_(short_story_collection) |
| Contents | Wings -- Hunger -- The lost "beautifulness" -- The free vacation house -- The miracle -- Where lovers dream -- Soap and water -- "The fat of the land" -- My own people -- How I found America. |
| Credits |
Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 84.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Jewish fiction |
| Subject | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction |
| Subject | Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 41232 |
| Release Date | Oct 30, 2012 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 14636 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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