However, society is riven with poverty and fractured with many undermining forces that create uncertainty and neglect in the lives of many families and the babies that depend upon them for love, nurture and security in their young lives.
In this volume our classic authors bring you narratives with characters so young, so dependent, that despair and heartbreak will overwhelm the natural desire to help.
1 - The Baby - Tales of Neglect - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction
2 - The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Anderson
3 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
4 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli
5 - The Christening by Guy de Maupassant
6 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird
7 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin
8 - Little Brother by Mary E Mann
9 - Yanko the Musician by Henryk Sienkiewicz
10 - The Windfall by Vicente Blasco Ibanez