Sign-In
Cart
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Paperback
Classic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781434469007
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: May 16 2025
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A series of whimsical and philosophical essays delivered as conversations around a boardinghouse breakfast table. Blending wit, satire, and thoughtful observation, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table explores human nature, society, and the life of the mind in 19th-century America. With its blend of humor and insight, it remains a foundational work of American literary essay writing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (1809-1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer. He remains one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.
Also from
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
The annotated Common Law: with 2010 Foreword and Explanatory Notes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Paperback
The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory Notes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Hardcover
Poems of the Old South by: Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Howe, Hale and Clarke (1877)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Hardcover
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw It from the Belfry
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Paperback
The One Hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & the Broomstick Train
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Paperback
Also in
Classic Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback
The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Paperback
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paperback
The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author: Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Hardcover
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Hardcover
The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Revised and easy-to-read)
Vermilye, Alan
Bunyan, John
Paperback
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback