Reminiscences of a Boyhood in the Early Part of the Century. A Fragment of a Life
Author : Charles Dent Bell
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Charles Dent Bell
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Charles Dent Bell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019493007
Take a trip back in time to the early nineteenth century with this charming memoir of a boy's life. From childhood pranks to adult responsibilities, Bell's experiences offer a glimpse into a bygone era and a reflection on the joys and sorrows of growing up. 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 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. 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.
Author : Kansuke Naka
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611729114
Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence. Innocence fades as he slowly becomes aware of himself and others, while scene after scene richly evokes the tastes, lifestyles, landscapes, objects, and manners of a lost Japan. Kansuke Naka (1885–1965) was a Japanese poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a student of the great novelist Soseki Natsume, who lavishly praised the “freshness and dignity” of Naka’s prose and encouraged the first publication of The Silver Spoon. Hiroaki Sato is a writer, reviewer, and translator with over forty works of classical and modern Japanese poetry, prose, and fiction published in English. He has received the PEN American Center Translation Prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He lives in New York City and writes a monthly column on politics and society for the Japan Times.
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804172153
From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories. “A rare gem…. Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded.” —The New York Times Book Review Long before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals—also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, Sacks chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten,” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes—in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.
Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743211994
Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.
Author : John Rogers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806128917
In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, playing games, and participating in sacred rituals. These customs were to be cast aside, however, when he was taken to a white school in an effort to assimilate him into white society. In the foreword to this new edition, Melissa L. Meyer places Roger’s memoirs within the story of the White Earth Reservation.
Author : Worcester Free Public Library
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Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
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Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 1889
Category : English periodicals
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Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : George Smith
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Evangelistic work
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