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Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809–1894
A celebrated 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist, he brought wit, warmth, and sharp observation to both medicine and literature. His enduring works include The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Elsie Venner, and “The Deacon’s Masterpiece.”
36 Audiobooks
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Guardian Angel
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Elsie Venner
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quotes and Images From the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our Hundred Days in Europe
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 02 Additional Poems (1837-1848)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 03: Medical Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Mortal Antipathy
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 11 Poems from the Teacups Series
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 12 Verses from the Oldest Portfolio
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 2
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 08 Bunker Hill and Other Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 1
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 10: Before the Curfew
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05 Poems of the Class of '29 (1851-1889)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Over the Teacups
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06 Poems from the Breakfast Table Series
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09 The Iron Gate and Other Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stories of Romance
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Allan Cunningham, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, John Wilson
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; A Collection of Essays, 1857-1881
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
About the author
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1809, Oliver Wendell Holmes studied at Harvard and became both a physician and a professor. He later served as dean of Harvard Medical School, while earning wide recognition for his poetry, essays, novels, and lectures.
Holmes was part of the lively New England literary world and counted writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier among his friends. He continued writing after retiring from Harvard in 1882 and died in 1894; he was also the father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.