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Penguin Publishing Group, 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Paperback - 1961
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- Title The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Pages 283
- Language EN
- Publisher Signet Classics, New York
- Date August 1, 1961
- ISBN 9780451500533
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New York. 1961. August 1961. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500539. Afterword By Eleanor M. Tilton. 285 pages. paperback. CD53. Cover: Lambert. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - What is love? beauty? human communication? What is important in life and where should it be sought? These are the issues - the underlying themes - set forth by the Autocrat each morning on Beacon Hill. With wit and deviltry, he teases and lectures his fellow breakfasters on such varied subjects as quacks, the simple pleasures, mutual admiration societies, the poverty of logic, the evils of specialized learning, the superiority of aristocrats over self - made men. Dr. Holmes was the most brilliant conversationalist in Boston, the 'Hub of the Universe,' and his essays explored the limitless range of his freethinking mind. He provided an elaborate portrait of the New England liberal intelligence in…
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