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As a Man Grows Older
The Old Man's Boy Grows Older
Author: Robert Ruark
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1993-10-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780805029741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young man recalls fond memories of his grandfather and the wilderness lessons he taught which serve to guide him when he leaves North Carolina to roam the world beyond.
Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?
Author: Richard J. Leider
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1523092467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Grow old on purpose. This book invites readers to navigate a purposeful path from adulthood to elderhood with choice, curiosity, and courage. Everyone is getting old; not everyone is growing old. But the path of purposeful aging is accessible to all—and it's fundamental to health, happiness, and longevity. With a focus on growing whole through developing a sense of purpose in later life, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? celebrates the experience of aging with inspiring stories, real-world practices, and provocative questions. Framed by a long conversation between two old friends, the book reconceives aging as a liberating experience that enables us to become more authentically the person we always meant to be with each passing year. In their bestseller Repacking Your Bags, Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro defined the good life as “living in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right work, on purpose.” This book builds on that definition to offer a purposeful path for living well while aging well.
As a Man Grows Older
Author: Italo Svevo
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-01-27
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1786258358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina—except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio’s jealous persistence in his folly—against his friends’ and devoted sister’s advice, and even his own best knowledge—leads to the loss of the one person who, too late, he realizes he truly loves. Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo’s great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete’s classic translation.-Print ed. “The poem of our complex modern madness.”—EUGENIO MONTALE “Svevo has the capacity—so rare as to be almost unknown in the English novel—of handling emotional relationships with a combined tenderness, humour and realism.”—THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old
Author: J. Ellsworth Kalas
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1426755929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Growing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. If you're growing older you see some hope because you have perspective and you keep learning. If you've grown old, you may cynically think that times have never been as bad as they are now, and that they can only get worse. This book is about learning how to "make peace with where you are right now." It's about learning from the past and then moving past it. It's about growing--personally, spiritually, and in our relationships with God and with others. If we think properly about growing older we'll never have to grow old.
A Very Old Man
Author: Italo Svevo
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 168137594X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno’s Conscience in 1923. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start—aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias—even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book’s pages. It opens with “The Contract,” in which Zeno’s manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini’s early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the trenches. Zeno, by contrast, embodies the confusion and paralysis of the more decorous, although sleepy, way of life associated with the onetime Austro-Hungarian Empire which for so long ruled over Trieste but has now been swept away. As always, Svevo is attracted to the theme of how people fail to fit in. It is they, he suggests, who offer a recognizably human countenance in a world ravaged by the ambitions and fantasies of its true believers.
Miracle Boy Grows Up
Author: Ben Mattlin
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-08-14
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1616087315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes how the author, an NPR commentator and professional writer who was born with spinal muscular atrophy, was expected to die in childhood but who with the support of a growing disability rights movement became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard.
The Old Man and the Boy & The Old Man's Boy Grows Older
Author: Robert Chester Ruark
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To celebrate the beginning of the Classics of American Sport series, Stackpole is reprinting Ruark's classic tales of the coming of age of a boy and young man as he is nurtured and educated by his remarkable sportsman grandfather.
The Old Man and the Boy
Author: Robert Ruark
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1993-08-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780805026696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Journalist Robert Ruark tells of the friendship between a young boy and his grandfather as they hunt and fish in North Carolina
