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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

PREFACE. 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 w... Read more

Biography EssayFor nearly a quarter of a century, from the publication in 1858 of The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table until his resignation from the Harvard Medical School in 1882, Dr. Oliver Wendell... Read more

Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate a... Read more

For nearly a quarter of a century, from the publication in 1858 of The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table until his resignation form the Harvard Medical School in 1882, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes dominate... Read more

During his long career, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a variety of genres and attained considerable popularity among his nineteenth-century contemporaries. Though interest in his work has declined, h... Read more