The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - Softcover
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table contains writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, exploring the range of his freethinking mind. This collection made its initial appearance in the first few issues of The Atlantic Monthly, and was largely responsible for that magazine's early success.
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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 ³the Autocrat² 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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nick-named the "Great Dissenter" because of his many dissenting opinions. Holmes is also the author of Kent's Commentaries on the Law (1873) and "The Path of the Law" (1897).
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date1961
- ISBN 10 0451500539
- ISBN 13 9780451500533
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages283
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st edition. New York. 1961. August 1961. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500539. Afterword By Eleanor M. Tilton. 285 pages. paperback. CD53. Cover: Lambert. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - What is love? beauty? human communication? What is important in life and where should it be sought? These are the issues - the underlying themes - set forth by the Autocrat each morning on Beacon Hill. With wit and deviltry, he teases and lectures his fellow breakfasters on such varied subjects as quacks, the simple pleasures, mutual admiration societies, the poverty of logic, the evils of specialized learning, the superiority of aristocrats over self - made men. Dr. Holmes was the most brilliant conversationalist in Boston, the 'Hub of the Universe,' and his essays explored the limitless range of his freethinking mind. He provided an elaborate portrait of the New England liberal intelligence in reaction against itself, the first such self - examination in American letters. This collection, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, made its initial appearance in the first issues of the Atlantic Monthly and was largely responsible for that magazine's early success. inventory #29082. Seller Inventory # z29082
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