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One-Hoss-Shay, How the Old Horse Won the Bet, & The Broomstick Train
Häftad, 2009
123 kr
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Our Hundred Days in Europe
E-bok, 2018
30 kr
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In 1886, exhausted and mourning the death of his youngest son, Holmes and his daughter, Amelia, traveled to England and France, where they visited various friends, distinguished writers, and where Holmes received a number of honorary doctorates. This memoir is an elegantly composed travelogue of …
Professor At the Breakfast Table
E-bok, 2018
29 kr
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This 1860 sequel to the author''s popular 1858 collection of essays, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, continues the genial, conversational quality of its predecessor. In order to continue interest in a second volume, this book is much more aggressive in tone and thought. It questions aspects of …
Guardian Angel
E-bok, 2018
30 kr
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Sparkling with wit and humor, The Guardian Angel—first serialized in The Atlantic Monthly—paints a charming portrait of society in a New England country town in the mid-nineteenth century. Homes’ inspiration came from his belief that man was a product solely of his heredity and environment.
Over The Teacups
E-bok, 2018
30 kr
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Published in 1890, "Over the Teacups" is the last of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s fabled “table talk” books. A collection of charming and witty essays, written in the form of a novel, with Holmes’s characteristic engaging voice, this is a tour de force from Holmes, who was nearly eighty years old when …
Poet At the Breakfast Table
E-bok, 2018
30 kr
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This 1872 instalment in Holmes’s popular Breakfast Table series is a fluent, gossipy exchange among the poet of the title and his breakfast companions—with the lion''s share of conversation belonging to the poet, who delivers his somewhat eccentric and fitfully amusing opinions of books, people, …
Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table
E-bok, 2018
30 kr
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This collection of essays, published in 1858, inaugurated a series of similar books that Holmes would publish over the course of his long career. The essays are set in the dining room of a boarding house and feature one-sided humorous perorations by the otherwise unnamed "Autocrat" on a number of …
Elsie Venner
E-bok, 2018
30 kr
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In this classic of the supernatural, a physician puzzles over seventeen-year-old Elsie’s neurosis and fiery temper—only diagnosing her when he learns that the girl’s mother, while pregnant, was bitten by a poisonous snake. Exploring themes of original sin and redemption in the footsteps of …
Mortal Antipathy
E-bok, 2018
29 kr
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This is the final volume in Holmes’s trio of what he called his “medicated novels” (Elsie Venner and The Guardian Angel being the first two); A Mortal Antipathy explores a young man’s phobia about beautiful young women after being accidentally dropped into a thorn bush as a baby by an attractive …
