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The autocrat of the breakfast-table

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Oliver Wendell Holmes was a physician, professor, author. This was his first book of essays based on his life in a boarding house in Boston in the 19th century.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Fiction classic literature American fiction American literature Modern Literature Socialism Agricultural laborers American essays Boston (mass.), intellectual life America, in literature Litereture Ensaio Norte Americano Holmes, oliver wendell, 1809-1894, bibliography

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