The Autocrat of the Breakfast Tableby Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Category: |
"Philosophy" |
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| Pages: | 238 |
| Year of Publication: | 1858 |
| Date Read: | 07/19/1997 |
| Notes: | A series of personal essays ostensibly recounting the boarding-house breakfast-table conversation of the Autocrat 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. |
| My Rating: | 5 |