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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1857
Original text in English.
Around a boarding-house table, a talker no one dares interrupt turns conversation into literature; it is there that a fellow diner calls Boston the hub of the solar system.
Essay · 14 parts · about 89 000 words · about 6 h 26 of reading
Contents
- Ouverture1 min
- THE AUTOCRAT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY3 min
- I29 min
- II27 min
- III25 min
- IV36 min
- V32 min
- VI31 min
- VII36 min
- VIII28 min
- IX36 min
- X29 min
- XI32 min
- XII42 min
About this text
Oliver Wendell Holmes († 1894): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 751). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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