Life with Father

by Clarence Day

Overview

Life with Father is a charming, humorous memoir that captures the eccentricities of Clarence Day's formidable father and the lively Day family in turn-of-the-century New York. With wit and

affection, Day paints a vivid portrait of domestic life, filled with warmth, laughter, and the quirks of a bygone era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798330355716
Publisher:	Natal Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	08/16/2024
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

	A Holiday with Father	1
	Father on Horseback	12
	Father is Firm with His Ailments	19
	Father Wakes up the Village	28
	Father Declines to be Killed	39
	Father Hires a Cook	53
	Father Feels Starved	57
	Father Thumps on the Floor	63
	The Gift of Song	68
	The Noblest Instrument	74
	Father Tries to Make Mother Like Figures	90
	Father and His Hard-Rocking Ship	100
	Father Has Trouble with the Land of Egypt	109
	Father Teaches Me to be Prompt	121
	Father Interferes with the Twenty-third Psalm	129
	Mother and the Armenian	135
	Father Opens My Mail	141
	Father Sends Me to the World's Fair	152
	Father's Old Trousers	166
	Father Lets in the Telephone	172
	Father Isn't Much Help	181
	Father Sews on a Button	190
	Father and the Crusader's Third Wife	197
	Father among the Potted Palms	202
	Father Has a Bad Night	212
	Father and His Other Selves	219
	Father Finds Guests in the House	225
	Father and His Pet Rug	234
	Father and the French Court	244
	Father Plans to Get Out	250