
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
TO MY READERS.
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
CHAPTER I. AN ADVERTISEMENT.
CHAPTER II. GREAT EXCITEMENT
CHAPTER III. ANTECEDENTS.
CHAPTER IV. BYLES GRIDLEY, A. M.
CHAPTER V. THE TWINS.
CHAPTER VI. THE USE OF SPECTACLES.
Language
en
Duration
~11 hours (690K characters)
Release date
2004-09-29
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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