The complete online text of Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician and author, contributed to the advancement of medicine and wrote witty essays and popular poems. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. 29, 1809, scion of a well-established New E...

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 and medical degrees from Harvard, then served as profes...

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 and medical degrees from Harvard, then served as profes...

H.P. Lovecraft. Collected Essays Volume 5: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany. S.T. Joshi, Ed. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006. 382 pp. $20.00 paper. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) has only lately been honored for his significant contributions to twentieth century speculative fiction. Blending early science...

What would John Bodger do? That's what the trustees of the Whitneyville Public Library had to ask themselves last December, just weeks after the death of their storied librarian of nearly 30 years. Their collective answer: Build a bigger library. The...