Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to being an author and a poet, Holmes was also a physician, professor, lecturer, and inventor.
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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1999
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
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1973
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
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1973
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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1952
The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes
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1943
The best American humorous short stories
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1920
Over the teacups
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1890
Our hundred days in Europe
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1887
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1884
The Guardian Angel
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1867
Elsie Venner
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1861
The autocrat of the breakfast-table
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1858