The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - Softcover

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406813176 ISBN 13: 9781406813173

Publisher: Echo Library, 2006

Synopsis

This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1893 edition by George Routledge and Sons, London. In this collection of essays, Holmes presents his ideas on various topics via the Autocrat, the leader of discussions on philosophy, science, and social issue

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Echo Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406813176
• ISBN 13: 9781406813173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176