The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly of September, 1858) With numerous original illustrations by Thomas McIlvaine Frederick A. Stokes Company 1897 [Illustration: 008] [Illustration: 013] [I...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...