Download or read book The Snows of Yesteryear written by Gregor Von Rezzori and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear. The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.
Download or read book Yesteryear s Child written by And Rohrbacher Westwood and Rohrbacher and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yesteryear's Child" brings to life a time and place in our collective American past. This is much more than one woman's story. Outdoor privies became indoor plumbing; horse-drawn carriages shared the dusty roads with the first automobiles; and the earliest telephone numbers were single digits. In the tradition of such personal memoirs as "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "I Remember Mama" this delightful tale will evoke memories in the old and wonder in the young.
Download or read book Yesteryear written by Dorothy Garlock and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irresistible tale of love and passion in the post-Civil-War South from Dorothy Garlock, the award-winning, bestselling author of A Gentle Giving and Sins of Summer. Addie waited four long years for her husband to return from the Civil War, but to no avail. Now deserters and drifters are making her life dangerous . . . until a mysterious stranger shows up to protect her and her children.
Download or read book Yesteryear s Faith Seeking Understanding written by Philip John Fisk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of yesteryear’s scholastics are silenced. Scholastic distinctions discarded. Faith seeking understanding cancelled. This book turns to university professors who brought classical, medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance thought to bear on the teaching of the doctrine of providence at the early New England Colleges. Their ultimate purpose was to exonerate God from the charge that he was the author, even actor, of evil. Their scholastic method drew from a long and surprisingly ecumenical and philosophical enterprise in the history of the church. This book’s aim is to let the scholastic approaches to the mystery of divine providence speak for themselves. Part One introduces the reader to the art of disputation and provides a guided historical-theological tour of scholastic distinctions that were used by doctors of the church to explain issues related to the doctrine of divine providence. Part Two invites the reader to follow the author on his journeys to Harvard, Yale, the College of New Jersey, and the College of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations’ commencement-day disputations as he engages in Platonic-like dialogues with presidents, rectors, and students of the New England Colleges. While the dialogues are imagined, the characters, times, locations, and quoted texts are real.
Download or read book Halloween written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artful blend of informative narrative, old-fashioned poems, prose, and chants, this volume highlights eye-catching images of vintage Halloween ephemera and fanciful illustrations. More than 100 postcards from 1900 to 1918 are included among the 163 color illustrations.
Download or read book Nathan of Yesteryear and Michael of Today written by Brian J. Heinz and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the life of Michael to that of Nathan--Michael's great-great-great grandfather--showing how society in the two times differ on such topics as power, construction, communication, transportation, entertainment, school, and food.
Download or read book Ask the Past written by Elizabeth P. Archibald and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward. Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird. Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.
Download or read book Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise written by Myrtle Scharrer Betz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Memories of Yesteryear written by Peter Casill and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The O Level Book written by and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent scrapping of GCSEs fresh in everyone's minds, The O Level Book is the perfect book to settle that age-old argument between the generations: were the exams of yesteryear really harder than anything children have to face today in the age of calculators and spell checkers? Are contemporary kids less intelligent than previous generations? Here is the chance to find out as the whole family pit their wits against one another in the ultimate generation game, contrasting the schooling of yesteryear with modern educational practices. Testing you on a range of old-school topics: English Language; General Science; Geography and History; Household Cookery; Mathematics. A wonderfully nostalgic yet testing anthology, The O Level Book encourages you to dust off your slide rules and get your thinking caps on to see who will come out on top in your family!
Download or read book Of Yesteryear written by Lauren Eden and published by Radiant Sky Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Yesteryear is a collection of poetry that effortlessly transcribes the chaos of the never ending battle between head and heart. In her debut, Lauren Eden's succinct and beautiful observations of human nature and its gains and losses will lead readers to understand their own journey in love and self discovery - now, and of yesteryear.
Download or read book Book of the Dead written by E. Hoffmann Price and published by Arkham House Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a writing career lasting nearly seven decades, E. Hoffman Price formed lasting friendships with many of the great and near-great fictioneers, editors and artists of his day -- H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Otis Adelbert Kline, Farnsworth Wright, W.K. Mashburn, Ralph Milne Farley, Seabury Quinn, Hugh Rankin, Robert Spencer Carr, Barsoom Badigian, Harry Olmstead, Albert Richard Wetjen, Norbert W. Davis, Milo Ray Phelps, William S. Bruner, Henry Kuttner, Jack Williamson, August Derleth and Edmond Hamilton. Through long correspondence and many cross country trips, E. Hoffman Price kept diaries of his visits, which from time to time he transformed into essays recalling the grand old days of the fictioneer's precarious way of life. Several essays were previously published in fanzines and as Arkham House book introductions. In 1977, Price rewrote these and added additional essays to fill a book. This is one of the most fascinating and historically important books about the pulp fiction era.
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Download or read book The Tears of Yesteryear written by Julie Tulba and published by Julie Tulba. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decade of the 20th century, nearly 10 million immigrants journeyed to America in search of a better life. Thousands settled in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a city where the skies were always black, the steel mills were always roaring, and life was bleak and harsh. One of them, Ewa Piekos, an orphan girl of 15 from Poland, wants simply to be loved and to feel like she is not alone.On the voyage to America, Ewa's beloved sister dies, throwing her into an emotional tailspin. It's only after arriving at Ellis Island that Ewa learns the real reason she was brought to the Land of Golden Opportunity. This secret is almost as crushing to her as the moment her sister died.From the time she arrives at Ellis Island, Ewa's life is never an easy one. It is filled with heartache and loss. But her life in America enables her to plant roots which eventually grow with the family she establishes there.
Download or read book Yesteryear s Love written by Janet Quinn and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the clues of her great-grandmother's diary, Sarah Martin went to Moose Creek, Wyoming. In the town church, she's strangely drawn to a stained glass window. She turns away -- and finds herself over a hundred years in the past! It's 1870, and suddenly Sarah must adjust to frontier life and meet her great-grandparents. Then handsome Joshua Campbell arrives -- and Sarah falls in love. But she can't interfere with the workings of the past -- can she?
Download or read book Arizona of Yesteryear written by Deborah Zindell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation. Its population and buildings are booming, but Arizona still conjures up images of the frontier—Saguaro cacti, Indian reservations, cowboys, and the staggeringly beautiful Grand Canyon. With this attractive album edition, discover Arizona of Yesteryear in this extraordinary pictorial history. Archival photographs showcase the stunning landscapes and incredible natural beauty of Arizona from the turn of the century through the mid–1900s. Learn about the rich cultural heritage of Arizona through portraits captured by renowned photographer Dorothea Lange and others. Faces of early Arizonians—including Hopi and Maricopa Indians, cowboys, Oklahoma refugees, and Mexican laborers—bring the history of the state to life. The Grand Canyon has long been symbolic of Arizona, and one of the most popular destinations for tourists worldwide. Even in the 1800s, people flocked to the rim of the canyon to contemplate the power of Mother Nature—before there were guardrails! Witness the early development of Arizona, including images of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Maricopa and the awe-inspiring construction of both the Hoover and Roosevelt dams. Explore Arizona’s historic architecture, including San Xavier del Bec in Tucson, Mission Tumacacori, Pima Indian huts, and the Anasazi "White House" ruins.
Download or read book Mr Wycherly s Wards written by Lizzie Allen Harker and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
