Decades after leaving for America, the author of How the Other Half Lives returns in memory to Ribe, the ancient Danish town of his childhood. He recalls its cathedral and storks, its customs and characters, the schoolmaster father who struggled for forty years to feed a large family on a small income, and the slow arrival of the modern world. Wladyslaw Benda’s drawings accompany the text.
A warm, personal picture of nineteenth-century Danish small-town life by one of America’s great social reformers. Download the free EPUB.