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Reminiscences of an Octogenarian

Author : Bruce M. Metzger
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441241817
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of an Octogenarian written by Bruce M. Metzger and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Manning Metzger's memoirs trace his life from his childhood in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and his student years at Princeton through his distinguished career of teaching, writing, lecturing, and editing. Professor Metzger's work has won him the gratitude of both biblical scholars and the larger Bible-reading public. His text-critical work on the New Testament is reflected in the standard Greek text now used and appreciated by scholars worldwide. His efforts on the Revised Standard and New Revised Standard versions of the Bible helped produce the readable, accurate English translations used for study and devotion by so many. His work on The Reader's Digest Bible and The Oxford Companion to the Bible has made the Bible more accessible for an untold number of readers. In these memoirs, Professor Metzger's own words put a human face on his monumental scholarly achievements. The wide array of stories and vignettes--from Senator Joseph McCarthy's attack on RSV committee members and Metzger's audiences with the pope to the time Professor Metzger and other members of the NRSV committee had to crawl out of a library window to get to their dinner--offer the reader a personal insight into some of the twentieth century's crucial developments in the text and translation of the Bible.

Omniana

Author : James Franklin Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Omniana written by James Franklin Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Author : Robert Enoch Withers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of an Octogenarian written by Robert Enoch Withers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home and Abroad

Author : Sir Merton Russell-Cotes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Home and Abroad written by Sir Merton Russell-Cotes and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Author : Robert Enoch Withers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of an Octogenarian written by Robert Enoch Withers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

Author : Helene Tursten
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290110
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good written by Helene Tursten and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late eighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way. Over the course of her adventures—or misadventures—this little bold lady will handle a crisis with a local celebrity who has her eyes on Maud's apartment, foil the engagement of her long-ago lover, and dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when the local authorities are called to investigate a dead body found in Maud's apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?

HOME AND ABROAD,

Author : MERTON. RUSSELL-COTES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033736975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book HOME AND ABROAD, written by MERTON. RUSSELL-COTES and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

Author : Hendrik Groen
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455542148
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen written by Hendrik Groen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 international bestseller, an old man who is young at heart proves that life doesn't stop once you enter a nursing home, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove. Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is elderly. But at age 83 and one quarter, this feisty curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, exasperated by the indignities of aging, Hendrik has decided to rebel. He begins writing an exposé: secretly recording the antics of day-to-day life in his retirement home, where he refuses to take himself, or his fellow ""inmates,"" too seriously. With an eccentric group of friends, he founds the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, and he and his best friend, Evert, gleefully stir up trouble, enraging the home's humorless director and turning themselves into unlikely heroes. And when a sweet and sassy widow moves in next door, he is determined to savor every ounce of joy in the time he has left, with hilarious and tender consequences. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is an inspiring, charming, and laugh-out-loud delight for readers of any age.

The Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Author : D. N. Prime
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382815613
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of an Octogenarian written by D. N. Prime and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Author : Robert Enoch Withers
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230410388
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of an Octogenarian written by Robert Enoch Withers and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. WAR. At no period of my life had I experienced such feelings of anxiety, apprehension and discomfort as oppressed me at this time. The idea of leaving behind me a wife and eight little girls without a protector, was in itself most distressing, but when to this was added the expectation of an addition to the number which might occur at any hour, I was placed in a most embarrassing dilemma. I came to the conclusion that I would not leave home before the expected event occurred, as no consideration of duty or honor demanded such a sacrifice. Providentially, however, my tenth daughter was ushered into a troubled world about midnight of the twenty-second of April. We were under marching orders for eight a . m. on the twentythird, about eight hours afterwards. My wife, with that unselfish courage which always characterized her, said I must accompany the battalion if I thought it my duty to do so. I continued to balance the conflicting claims of domestic and public duty without reaching a decision, until the beating of the drums and the whistle of the awaiting train forced me to action. I then cheered my wife with the assurance that I would almost surely be able to get leave of absence for a few days before the command would leave Richmond, and would then pay her a visit, and with this promise we parted. I doubt if any other soldier answered the call leaving a wife in bed and a baby eight hours old. Before I started, my wife asked what we should call the baby, I answered that I left it entirely to her. By some means the peculiar circumstances of the case became public, and the Richmond Whig, at that time a journal of large influence and circulation suggested as appropriate for the little stranger the name of "Virginia Secessia, ..".

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 030783025X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman written by Ernest J. Gaines and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.

Measure of My Days

Author : Florida Scott-Maxwell
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307828344
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Measure of My Days written by Florida Scott-Maxwell and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eighty-two, Florida Scott-Maxwell felt impelled to write about her strong reactions to being old, and to the time in which we live. Until almost the end this document was not intended for anyone to see, but the author finally decided that she wanted her thoughts and feelings to reach others. Mrs. Scott-Maxwell writes: “I was astonished to find how intensely one lives in one’s eighties. The last years seemed a culmination and by concentrating on them one became more truly oneself. Though old, I felt full of potential life. It pulsed in me even as I was conscious of shrinking into a final form which it was my task and stimulus to complete.” The territory of the old is not Scott-Maxwell’s only concern. In taking the measure of the sum of her days as a woman of the twentieth century, she confronts some of the most disturbing conflicts of human nature—the need for differentiation as against equality, the recognition of the evil forces in our nature—and her insights are challenging and illuminating. The vision that emerges from her accumulated experience of life makes this a remarkable document that speaks to all ages.

The Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Author : Daniel Noyes Prime
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331133094
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of an Octogenarian written by Daniel Noyes Prime and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Autobiography of an Octogenarian: Containing the Genealogy of His Ancestors; Sketches of Their History; And of Various Events That Have Occurred During His Protracted Life; His Theological Views, &C, &C For a man in the "common walks of life," with nothing very remarkable to relate, to become his own biographer and publish to the world a history of his experiences, will probably be thought by many an exhibition of vanity and egotism. I do not wonder at this. I freely confess that such has been my own feelings while writing these pages. When I commenced I had no real expectation that my scribblings would ever be published to the world. My object was simply to employ some of my leisure hours in calling back to mind some of the almost forgotten scenes of by-gone days for my own amusement and edification, thinking that I might perhaps leave something in manuscript that might be interesting to my children and friends. But as I proceeded and reflected upon the subject, and my manuscript increased in dimensions, I came to the conclusion that in no other way could my wishes be so well effected as to employ that wonderful agent, the press. What I wished to say to a few of my friends, might be interesting to many. The genealogy of our ancestors, I think, will interest a large circle of the descendants and connections of the different families from which we have descended. I regret that it could not have been more extensive and complete, especially that of the Primes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Author : Daniel Noyes Prime
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358647086
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of an Octogenarian written by Daniel Noyes Prime and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Author : Roz Chast
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620406381
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? written by Roz Chast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.

Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401956009
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Top Five Regrets of the Dying written by Bronnie Ware and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

The Autobiography of My Mother

Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828846
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of My Mother written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry. Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she could hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack Labatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and motherlessness.