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The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table: Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Holmes presents as an aristocratic, learned and garrulous denizen (a man of letters, of course) of a New England boarding house holds forth to fellow residents at his breakfast-table on various topics, including the advantages of old age, how to handle conversation, matters of aesthetics, religion, poetry, science, the character of America and Boston, ships, shoes and sealing wax...A presentation of Holmes' discursive rants into something approaching a novel, and therefore readable. Poet, physician, philosopher and essayist, Holmes also contributed greatly to medical research and reform. He was a member of the Fireside Poets and regarded as one of the brilliant writers of his time.
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Antiquities & Oddities, Hardback; undated Walter Scott edition; light corner bumps and a little foxing not obscuring text; previous owner's name; tightly bound and clean within, Modern LiteratureShare
