The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes
Essays Book language: English 237 pages The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a collection of discursive essays and table talk by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It presents the witty reflections and conversations of an unnamed Autocrat among fellow boarders at a Boston breakfast table. It is worth listening to for its humor, humane observation, and passages of verse woven into the prose.
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Opening of the book Transcribed from the 1873 James R. Osgood and Company edition by David Price, email [email protected]
THE
AUTOCRAT
OF
THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL.
BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
1873.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.
THE AUTOCRAT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The interruption referred to in the first sentence of the first of these papers was just a quarter of a century in duration.
Two articles entitled “The Autocrat of the BreakfastTable” will be found in the “New England Magazine,”
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