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The Abominations of Modern Society

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The Abominations of Modern Society

Thomas De Witt Talmage

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After midnight, the city shows its second face, and Talmage walked through it taking notes. His fiery chapters expose the era's urban traps: gambling dens, leprous newspapers, the indiscriminate dance, and the massacre by needle and sewing-machine that starved working women. Sensational Victorian social crusading at full volume. A tour of the underside, guided by its loudest enemy.

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19 chapters

  1. 1THE ABOMINATIONS OF MODERN SOCIETY.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4THE ABOMINATIONS.
  5. 5THE CURTAIN LIFTED.
  6. 6WINTER NIGHTS.
  7. 7THE POWER OF CLOTHES.
  8. 8AFTER MIDNIGHT.
  9. 9THE INDISCRIMINATE DANCE.
  10. 10THE MASSACRE BY NEEDLE AND SEWING-MACHINE.
  11. 11PICTURES IN THE STOCK GALLERY.
  12. 12LEPROUS NEWSPAPERS.
  13. 13THE FATAL TEN-STRIKE.
  14. 14SOME OF THE CLUB-HOUSES.
  15. 15FLASK, BOTTLE, AND DEMIJOHN.
  16. 16THE HOUSE OF BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS.
  17. 17THE GUN THAT KICKS OVER THE MAN WHO SHOOTS IT OFF.
  18. 18LIES: WHITE AND BLACK.

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