Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

57 books

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

244 pages • first pub 1857 (editions)

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The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, W.J. Lampton, Alexander Jessup, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., H.C. Bunner, George Pope Morris, George Randolph Chester, Eliza Leslie, Frank R. Stockton, O. Henry, George William Curtis, Caroline Kirkland, Edgar Allan Poe, Wells Hastings, Mark Twain, Bret Harte

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, W.J. Lampton, Alexander Jessup, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., H.C. Bunner, George Pope Morris, George Randolph Chester, Eliza Leslie, Frank R. Stockton, O. Henry, George William Curtis, Caroline Kirkland, Edgar Allan Poe, Wells Hastings, Mark Twain, Bret Harte

529 pages • first pub 1920 (editions)

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The Deacon's Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Paul Galdone

The Deacon's Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Paul Galdone

33 pages • first pub 1891 (editions)

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Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Elsie Venner

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

268 pages • first pub 1861 (editions)

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Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle: As She Saw It from the Belfry by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle: As She Saw It from the Belfry

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

80 pages • first pub 1875 (editions)

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One Hundred and One Famous Poems by Walter Scott, Alice Gary, Edward Lear, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phillips Brooks, Lord Byron, Francis William Bourdillon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sidney Lanier, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Hood, James Whitcomb Riley, Alexander Anderson, Henry Holcomb Bennett, John Milton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Herbert Carruth, Edward R. Sill, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Ellen H. Gates, Francis Miles Finch, Joaquin Miller, Sam Walter Foss, Roy Jay Cook, Henry Van Dyke, Walt Whitman, John McCrae, Frank L. Stanton, Rudyard Kipling, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Burroughs, Thomas Gray, John James Ingalls, Edgar Allan Poe, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edmund Vance Cooke, Alan Seeger, John Greenleaf Whittier, Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, Maltbie Davenport Babcock, William Cullen Bryant, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Buchanan Read, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One Hundred and One Famous Poems

Walter Scott, Alice Gary, Edward Lear, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phillips Brooks, Lord Byron, Francis William Bourdillon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sidney Lanier, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Hood, James Whitcomb Riley, Alexander Anderson, Henry Holcomb Bennett, John Milton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Herbert Carruth, Edward R. Sill, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Ellen H. Gates, Francis Miles Finch, Joaquin Miller, Sam Walter Foss, Roy Jay Cook, Henry Van Dyke, Walt Whitman, John McCrae, Frank L. Stanton, Rudyard Kipling, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Burroughs, Thomas Gray, John James Ingalls, Edgar Allan Poe, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edmund Vance Cooke, Alan Seeger, John Greenleaf Whittier, Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, Maltbie Davenport Babcock, William Cullen Bryant, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Buchanan Read, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

186 pages • first pub 1916 (editions)

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Parrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words And Art by John Keats, Joyce Kilmer, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Collins, Andrew Marvell, Lord Byron, Emily Brontë, Francis William Bourdillon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Ernest Henley, Laurence S. Cutler, Thomas Hood, Alexander Pope, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Maxfield Parrish, Robert Burns, George Pope Morris, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, John Donne, Rudyard Kipling, Judy Goffman Cutler, Edwin Markham, William Blake, Christopher Marlowe, John James Ingalls, Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Austin Parrish, A.E. Housman, Walter Raleigh, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Ben Johnson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, Henry David Thoreau, Christina Rossetti

Parrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words And Art

John Keats, Joyce Kilmer, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Collins, Andrew Marvell, Lord Byron, Emily Brontë, Francis William Bourdillon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Ernest Henley, Laurence S. Cutler, Thomas Hood, Alexander Pope, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Maxfield Parrish, Robert Burns, George Pope Morris, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, John Donne, Rudyard Kipling, Judy Goffman Cutler, Edwin Markham, William Blake, Christopher Marlowe, John James Ingalls, Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Austin Parrish, A.E. Housman, Walter Raleigh, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Ben Johnson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, Henry David Thoreau, Christina Rossetti

95 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

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Astraea, the Balance of Illusions: A Poem Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Astraea, the Balance of Illusions: A Poem Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

42 pages • first pub 1850 (editions)

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

142 pages • missing pub info (editions)

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

150 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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