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Older people -- Fiction

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• The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (new edition, with pictures from the play; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910), by Anne Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Fixed Period: A Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1990), by Anthony Trollope, ed. by R. H. Super (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fixed Period: A Novel (2 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1882), by Anthony Trollope
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Missing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Michelle Herman (PDF at Ohio State)

• A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), by James Joyce, ed. by David Hayman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Finnegans Wake (1939; second edition 1950), by James Joyce (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Pied Piper (c1942), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Old Man and the Sea (as published in full in Life Magazine, September 1, 1952), by Ernest Hemingway, illust. by Noel Sickles (page images at Google)
• A Little Rebel: A Novel (Montreal: John Lovell and Son, c1891), by The Duchess
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lady Blessington's Confessions of an Elderly Lady and Gentleman (2 volumes; Philadelphia : Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), by Marguerite Blessington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1911), by Mary Heaton Vorse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Confessions of an Elderly Lady (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838), by Marguerite Blessington, illust. by E. T. Parris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lady Blessington's Confessions of an Elderly Lady and Gentleman (2 volumes; Philadelphia : Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), by Marguerite Blessington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• More Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
• Tish (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, illust. by C. E. Brock
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML in Japan
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Demography of Aging, ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images at NAP)

• Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America (prepublication version), by National Research Council Committee on National Statistics, ed. by Richard J. Bonnie and Robert B. Wallace (page images at NAP)

• Grey Matters: A Guide to Collaborative Research with Seniors (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2010), by Nancy J. Marlett and Claudia Emes, contrib. by Penny Jennett, Bob Stebbins, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Dooley, and Marianne Rogerson (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (2005), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• A Guide for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (electronic edition, 2002), by Kansas Department on Aging (HTML at aginngkansas.org)

• Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (2005), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• The Third and Only Way: Reflections On Staying Alive (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Social and Built Environment in an Older Society, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council (page images at NAP)

• The Social and Built Environment in an Older Society, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council (page images at NAP)

• Productive Roles in an Older Society, by Committee on an Aging Society (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior, ed. by Eric A. Hanushek and Nancy L. Maritato (page images at NAP)

• Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of A Workshop, ed. by Deborah S. Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice (page images at NAP)

• Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of A Workshop, ed. by Deborah S. Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice (page images at NAP)

• Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of A Workshop, ed. by Deborah S. Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice (page images at NAP)

• Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of A Workshop, ed. by Deborah S. Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice (page images at NAP)

• Costs and Effectiveness of Cholesterol Screening in the Elderly (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly (OTA-BA-306; Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Costs and Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Screening in Elderly Men (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Demography of Aging, ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images at NAP)
• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

• Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett (HTML at UC Press)

• Nearing Home: Comforts and Counsels for the Aged, by William Edward Schenck (page images at MOA)

• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

• Agrarian Justice, by Thomas Paine (HTML at ssa.gov)
• Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, January, 1927, by Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, contrib. by James H. Maurer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, March, 1919 (Harrisburg: J. L. L. Kuhn, 1919), by Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, contrib. by James H. Maurer
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Social Insurance: A Program of Social Reform (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Henry R. Seager (PDF files at ssa.gov)
• Reports of the Gainsborough Commission: Life and Labour in Germany; With an Appendix: Infirmity and Old Age Pensions in Germany (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., ca. 1907), ed. by John Laidlay Bashford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• How to Retire Without Money (New York: Castle Books, c1958), by Bob Belmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demography of Aging, ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.