The Complete Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
This large collection brings together much of the prose and verse of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Boston physician and writer. It opens with the three breakfast-table books, The Autocrat, The Professor and The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, in which a talkative boarder holds forth to his fellow lodgers on science, religion and manners, with poems such as The Chambered Nautilus and The Deacon's Masterpiece set into the talk. Over the Teacups follows, then the novels Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel and A Mortal Antipathy, the essays of Pages from an Old Volume of Life, including My Hunt After the Captain, and the Medical Essays, among them his paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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