Children of Loneliness
BY
ANZIA YEZIERSKA
Author of “Hungry Hearts,” “Salome of the Tenements,” etc.
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First published 1923
Copyright, 1923, by
Funk & Wagnalls Company
Printed in Great Britain
To
Mrs. HENRY OLLESHEIMER
and
Mr. R. J. CUDDIHY
CONTENTS
CHILDREN OF LONELINESS
MOSTLY ABOUT MYSELF
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I feel like a starved man who is so bewilderedby the first sight of food that he wants to graband devour the ice-cream, the roast and theentrée all in one gulp. For ages and ages, mypeople in Russia had no more voice than thebroomstick in the corner. The poor had nomore chance to say what they thought or feltthan the dirt