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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This insightful biography, published in 1884, looks at the panorama of Emersons life, from his boyhood, family, and education to his travels, marriages, lectures, and essays. Ideal …
Our Hundred Days in Europe (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In 1886, exhausted and mourning the death of his youngest son, Holmes and his daughter, Amelia, traveled to England and France, where they visited various friends, distinguished …
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This collection of essays, published in 1858, inaugurated a series of similar books that Holmes would publish over the course of his long career. The essays are set in the dining …
Guardian Angel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Sparkling with wit and humor, The Guardian Angelfirst serialized in The Atlantic Monthlypaints a charming portrait of society in a New England country town in the mid-nineteenth …
John Lothrop Motley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Holmess inspiration for this engaging biography of John Lothrop Motley (18141877), was his personal relationship with the American historian and diplomat who wrote the incomparable …
Elsie Venner (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In this classic of the supernatural, a physician puzzles over seventeen-year-old Elsies neurosis and fiery temperonly diagnosing her when he learns that the girls mother, while …
Over the Teacups (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1890, Over the Teacups is the last of Oliver Wendell Holmess fabled table talk books. A collection of charming and witty essays, written in the form of a novel, with …
Professor at the Breakfast-Table (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1860 sequel to the author's popular 1858 collection of essays, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, continues the genial, conversational quality of its predecessor. In order …
Mortal Antipathy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This is the final volume in Holmess trio of what he called his medicated novels (Elsie Venner and The Guardian Angel being the first two); A Mortal Antipathy explores a young mans …
Poet at the Breakfast-Table (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1872 installment in Holmess popular Breakfast Table series is a fluent, gossipy exchange among the poet of the title and his breakfast companionswith the lion's share of …