Twas A Hard Knock Life

Tabor Home For Children was founded a century ago in Philadelphia but moved to Doylestown, PA in 1913. This remarkable anthology captures the memories and recollections of 50 of those residents spread over six decades. The experience of being raised in a children's home with 40 boys and 40 girls will enlighten, sadden, amuse and surprise most readers. The individual stories are told in a forthright style expressing remorse, gratitude, anger, joy, spirituality and excitement. The book is uplifting and depressing, adventurous and predictable, happy and sad, just like life itself.

We all get hard knocks. How can we benefit from them? How can we avoid them? This book tells how. It's simple. It's the truth told interestingly, humorously. Its lessons will be valuable to you. The School That Completes Our Education "The greatest school is The University of Hard Knocks. Its books are bumps. Here we learn all we know, and write it in the only book we ever own - The Book of Our Experience. "Every bump we get is a lesson. If we learn the lesson with one bump, we don't get that bump anymore, we get promoted to the next bump." William Jennings Bryan says regarding this book of optimistic philosophy and humor: "I am glad to commend Ralph Parlette's book 'The University of Hard Knocks,' which is full of simple and practical philosophy." Judge Ben B. Lindsay, Colorado's famous Juvenile Judge, says: "This book is a great big boost for everybody and everybody ought to read it. People ought to buy them by the gross and send them to their friends." "Has the grace of vividness. It is full of what the newspapers call 'punch.' And this is doubtless the reason for its popularity....It is readable and interesting." -The Christian Advocate Contents SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS I. THE BOOKS ARE BUMPS II. THE COLLEGE OF NEEDLESS KNOCKS III. THE COLLEGE OF NEEDFUL KNOCKS IV. "SHAKE THE BARREL" V. GOING UP VI. THE PROBLEM OF "PREPAREDNESS" VII. THE SALVATION OF A "SUCKER" VIII. LOOKING BACKWARD IX. GO ON SOUTH! X. GOING UP LIFE'S MOUNTAIN "Here is a great mass of words and sentences and pictures to express two or three simple little ideas of life, that our education is our growing up from the Finite to the Infinite, and that it is done by our own personal overcoming, and that we never finish it."

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Works of Anna Katharine Green". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". She is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Indeed, as journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". Table of Contents: Amelia Butterworth Series: That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane The Circular Study Mystery Novels: The Leavenworth Case A Strange Disappearance X Y Z: A Detective Story Hand and Ring The Mill Mystery The Forsaken Inn Cynthia Wakeham's Money Agatha Webb One of My Sons The Filigree Ball The Millionaire Baby The Chief Legatee' The Woman in the Alcove The Mayor's Wife The House of the Whispering Pines Three Thousand Dollars Initials Only Dark Hollow The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Non Detective Novel: The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life Short Stories: The Old Stone House and Other Stories A Difficult Problem and Other Stories Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange