Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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

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

One Hundred and One Famous Poems

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

186 pages • first pub 1916 (editions)

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

Parrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words And Art

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

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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