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Title |
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
Author |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 |
Summary |
Originally published in 1858, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a series of personal essays ostensibly recounting the boarding-house breakfast-table conversation of "the Autocrat" and his table-mates; the Professor, the Landlady, the Schoolmistress, the Divinity Student, and so on. The book is both a timeless depiction of a witty, urbane, and genial critical intelligence, and a vivid record of 19th-century America in general, and Boston intellectual circles in particular. |
Call Number |
PS1964.A1 1983 |
Title added entry |
Every Man His Own Boswell |
Series |
Collection of British Authors Volume 2114 |
Series added entry |
New and Revised Edition with Illustrative Notes |
Published Date |
1883 |
Publisher |
Bernard Tauchnitz |
Published Place |
Leipzig, Germany |
Collection |
PastPerfect Museum Library |
Catalog Number |
2004.2.2 |