Long novel e-books (over 3h to read) of Oliver Wendell Holmes

In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

The character of the opposition which some of these papers have met with suggests the inference that they contain really important, but unwelcome truths.

The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES [1893 three volume set] CONTENTS: TO MY READERS EARLIER POEMS ...

This tale was published in successive parts in the "Atlantic Monthly," under the name of "The Professor's Story," the first number having appeared in the third week of December, 1859.

"A new Preface" is, I find, promised with my story.

By Oliver W. Holmes PREFACE.

"A MORTAL ANTIPATHY" was a truly hazardous experiment.

CONTENTS: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table The Professor at the Breakfast-table The Poet at the Breakfast Table Over the Teacups Elsie Venner The Guardian Angel A Mortal Antipathy Pages from an...

From a painting by Sarah W. Whitman ROBERT BROWNING MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD SALISBURY CATHEDRAL PLACE DE LA CONCORDE INTRODUCTORY.

To AET.