Comrade Yetta
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Edwards Albert. Comrade Yetta
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. BENJAMIN'S BOOK-STORE
CHAPTER II. YETTA'S GIRLHOOD
CHAPTER III. THE SWEAT-SHOP
CHAPTER IV. LIFE CALLS
CHAPTER V. HARRY KLEIN
CHAPTER VI. THE PIT'S EDGE
BOOK II
CHAPTER VII. THE SKIRT-FINISHERS' BALL
CHAPTER VIII. NEW FRIENDS
CHAPTER IX. YETTA ENLISTS
CHAPTER X. THE W. T. U. L
CHAPTER XI. MABEL'S FLAT
CHAPTER XII. YETTA'S GOOD-BY
BOOK III
CHAPTER XIII. THE STRIKE
CHAPTER XIV. ARREST
CHAPTER XV. THE WORKHOUSE
CHAPTER XVI. CARNEGIE HALL
CHAPTER XVII. THE OPERATING ROOM
CHAPTER XVIII. WALTER'S FAREWELL
BOOK IV
CHAPTER XIX. YETTA'S WORK
CHAPTER XX. ISADORE BRAUN
CHAPTER XXI. THE STAR
CHAPTER XXII. WALTER'S RETURN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PALACE OF DREAMS
CHAPTER XXIV. THE CRASH
BOOK V
CHAPTER XXV. ISADORE'S MEDICINE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE CLARION
CHAPTER XXVII. NEW WORK
CHAPTER XXVIII. YETTA TAKES HOLD
CHAPTER XXIX. WALTER'S HAVEN
CHAPTER XXX. EVALUATION
CHAPTER XXXI. YETTA FINDS HERSELF
CHAPTER XXXII. OLD FRIENDS MEET – AND PART
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The girlhood of Yetta Rayefsky was passed in her father's second-hand book-store on East Broadway. In the late nineties the fame of his kindly philosophy had attracted a circle of followers, and the store became almost prosperous.
It was in a basement – four steps down from the sidewalk. The close-packed cases around the walls were filled with the wildest assortment of second-hand English books. You were likely to find a novel of Laura Jean Libby cheek by jowl with "The Book of Mormon," between two volumes of "Browning's Poems." The tables in the centre were piled chaotically with books and periodicals in Russian and Hebrew.
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His lack of ease was intensified by his strange surroundings. He had never been to a ball like this. He only knew two kinds: the flashy, vicious dances, organized by his own class, the kind he was planning to take Yetta to, and "Greenhorn balls" – sordid but equally vicious – in the back rooms of low-class saloons, patronized by ignorant, newly arrived immigrants.
The entry to the Lyceum Hall was packed with poorly dressed people, but they were not greenhorns. The women were the strangest of all to him. Their kind did not come to the balls he frequented. More than half of them wore shawls; they were of all ages, from fifteen to seventy. They were serious-eyed working women, and many of them looked hungry. He felt that his foppish clothes were conspicuous. He felt hostility in the stares of the men. He would have given anything to be among his own kind, on familiar ground.
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