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• Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Amelia DeFalco (PDF at Ohio State)
• At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Kathleen M. Woodward (PDF files at Ohio State)
• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Old Age: Two Discourses Upon This Theme (Bloomington, IN: S. C. Dodds and Co., 1879), by Elisha Ballantine (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Past Meridian (New York: D. Appleton and co.; Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by L. H. Sigourney (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Cure of Old Age, and Preservation of Youth (with Arrais's Arbor Vitae; London: Printed for T. Flesher and E. Evets, 1683), by Roger Bacon, trans. by Richard Browne, contrib. by Duarte Madeira Arrais
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• M. T. Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, Ex Editionibus Oliveti et Ernesti, Accedunt Notae Anglicae (third edition, with main text in Latin and commentary in English; Philadelphia: Perkins and Purves; Boston: B. Perkins, 1842), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Charles K. Dillaway
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (Gutenberg text)

• Ciba Foundation Colloquia on Ageing, ed. by G. E. W. Wolstenholme, Margaret P. Cameron, Elaine C. P. Millar, Cecilia M. O'Connor, and Maeve O'Connor (full serial archives)

• 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)

• Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Devoney Looser (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Extending Work Life: Employer Interests and Concerns (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2016), by Robert L. Clark and Melinda S. Morrill (PDF at upjohn.org)

• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)

• Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education (1991), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Graying Teachers: A Report on State Pension Systems and School District Early Retirement Incentives (Eugene, OR: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, 1992), by Frank V. Auriemma, Bruce S. Cooper, and Stuart Carl Smith (PDF at Oregon)

• Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education (1991), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images with commentary 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)

• The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (1988), ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (1988), ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans (1997), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Beth J. Soldo (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women (1990), 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 (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Naval Retiring Board: Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 18, 1856 (Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Sam Houston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Idealia, a Utopian Dream, or, Resthaven (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., c1923), by H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson, contrib. by J. W. Thompson and Melvil Dewey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson
  • Volume I (The Literature of Persia, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (The Literature of Persia, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Literature of India): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Literatature of China): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

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