
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
PREFACE.
A SECOND PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
ELSIE VENNER.
CHAPTER I. THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND.
CHAPTER II. THE STUDENT AND HIS CERTIFICATE.
CHAPTER III. MR. BERNARD TRIES HIS HAND.
CHAPTER IV. THE MOTH FLIES INTO THE CANDLE.
CHAPTER V. AN OLD-FASHIONED DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTER.
Language
en
Duration
~13 hours (789K characters)
Release date
2004-09-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1809–1894
A celebrated voice of 19th-century America, this physician-writer mixed wit, warmth, and sharp observation in poems and essays that made him a household name. He is especially remembered for the lively Breakfast-Table series and for "Old Ironsides," the poem that helped save the USS Constitution.
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