The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table


  • Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Professionally a doctor and professor of anatomy at Harvard, Holmes also published numerous poems and essays. Best known among these are The Chambered Nautilus, a poem about natural growth and the human spirit, and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, a collection of poetry and prose, both fiction and non-fiction. Holmes was a distinguished orator, poet, and essayist, typifying in the range of his intellectual accomplishments the refined intellect of his self-professed 'Brahmin' status.

  • ISBN: 9780543954398
  • ISBN: 9780543954381
  • Book details: This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by George Routledge and Sons in London, 1893. This book is in English. This book contains 275 pages.
  • Edition: Elibron Classics
  • Book ID: 3883
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