The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions
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- THE COMPLETE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
- EDITOR'S NOTE:
- AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE OVER THE TEACUPS ELSIE VENNER THE GUARDIAN ANGEL A MORTAL ANTIPATHY PAGES FROM AND OLD VOLUME OF LIFE MEDICAL ESSAYS MEMOIR OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
- Editor's Note
- THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
- THE AUTOCRAT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- MY FIRST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
- EXTRACT FROM MY PRIVATE JOURNAL.
- CHAPTER XI
- THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE: OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS-SHAY.”
- MY LAST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
- CHAPTER XII
- THE PROFESSOR UNDER CHLOROFORM.
- PARSON TURELL’S LEGACY: OR THE PRESIDENT’S OLD ARM-CHAIR.
- THE LONG PATH.
- THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
- THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
- I
- II
- III
- [The Professor talks with the Reader. He tells a Young Girl's Story.]
- IV
- V
- The Professor finds a Fly in his Teacup.
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- OVER THE TEACUPS
- PREFACE.
- OVER THE TEACUPS.
- I INTRODUCTION
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII.
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- ELSIE VENNER
- PREFACE.
- A SECOND PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- ELSIE VENNER.
- CHAPTER I. THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER II. THE STUDENT AND HIS CERTIFICATE.
- CHAPTER III. MR. BERNARD TRIES HIS HAND.
- CHAPTER IV. THE MOTH FLIES INTO THE CANDLE.
- CHAPTER V. AN OLD-FASHIONED DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTER.
- CHAPTER VI. THE SUNBEAM AND THE SHADOW.
- CHAPTER VII. THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE MORNING AFTER.
- CHAPTER IX. THE DOCTOR ORDERS THE BEST SULKY. (With a Digression on “Hired Help.”)
- “ABEL! Slip Cassia into the new sulky, and fetch her round.”
- CHAPTER X. THE DOCTOR CALLS ON ELSIE VENNER.
- CHAPTER XI. COUSIN RICHARD'S VISIT.
- CHAPTER XII. THE APOLLINEAN INSTITUTE. (With Extracts from the “Reporto f the committee.”)
- CHAPTER XIII. CURIOSITY.
- CHAPTER XIV. FAMILY SECRETS.
- CHAPTER XV. PHYSIOLOGICAL.
- CHAPTER XVI. EPISTOLARY.
- Mr. Langdon to the Professor.
- CHAPTER XVII. OLD SOPHY CALLS ON THE REVEREND DOCTOR.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE REVEREND DOCTOR CALLS ON BROTHER FAIRWEATHER.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD.
- CHAPTER XX. FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE WIDOW ROWENS GIVES A TEA-PARTY.
- CHAPTER XXII. WHY DOCTORS DIFFER.
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE WILD HUNTSMAN.
- CHAPTER XXIV. ON HIS TRACKS.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE PERILOUS HOUR.
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE NEWS REACHES THE DUDLEY MANSION.
- CHAPTER XXVII. A SOUL IN DISTRESS.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECRET IS WHISPERED.
- CHAPTER XXIX. THE WHITE ASH.
- CHAPTER XXX. THE GOLDEN CORD IS LOOSED.
- CHAPTER XXXI. MR. SILAS PECKHAM RENDERS HIS ACCOUNT.
- CHAPTER XXXII. CONCLUSION.
- THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
- TO MY READERS.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
- CHAPTER I. AN ADVERTISEMENT.
- CHAPTER II. GREAT EXCITEMENT
- CHAPTER III. ANTECEDENTS.
- CHAPTER IV. BYLES GRIDLEY, A. M.
- CHAPTER V. THE TWINS.
- CHAPTER VI. THE USE OF SPECTACLES.
- CHAPTER VII. MYRTLE'S LETTER—THE YOUNG MEN'S PURSUIT.
- CHAPTER VIII. DOWN THE RIVER.
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII. MYRTLE HAZARD'S STATEMENT.
- CHAPTER IX. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY RECEIVES A LETTER, AND BEGINS HIS ANSWER.
- CHAPTER X. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY FINISHES HIS LETTER—WHAT CAME OF IT.
- CHAPTER XI. VEXED WITH A DEVIL.
- CHAPTER XII. SKIRMISHING.
- CHAPTER XIII. BATTLE.
- CHAPTER XIV. FLANK MOVEMENT.
- CHAPTER XV. ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS.
- CHAPTER XVI. VICTORY.
- CHAPTER XVII. SAINT AND SINNER
- CHAPTER XVIII. VILLAGE POET.
- CHAPTER XIX. SUSAN'S YOUNG MAN.
- CHAPTER XX. THE SECOND MEETING.
- CHAPTER XXI. MADNESS?
- CHAPTER XXII. A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
- CHAPTER XXIII. MYRTLE HAZARD AT THE CITY SCHOOL.
- CHAPTER XXIV. MUSTERING OF FORCES.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE POET AND THE PUBLISHER.
- CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. CLYMER KETCHUM'S PARTY.
- CHAPTER XXVII. MINE AND COUNTERMINE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. MR. BRADSHAW CALLS ON MISS BADLAM
- “Is Miss Hazard in, Kitty?”
- CHAPTER XXIX. MISTRESS KITTY FAGAN CALLS ON MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY.
- CHAPTER XXX. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CALLS ON MISS CYNTHIA BADLAM.
- CHAPTER XXXI. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CONSULTS WITH JACOB PENHALLOW, ESQUIRE
- CHAPTER XXXII. SUSAN POSEY'S TRIAL.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. JUST AS YOU EXPECTED.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. MURRAY BRADSHAW PLAYS HIS LAST CARD.
- “How can I see that man this evening, Mr. Lindsay?”
- CHAPTER XXXV. THE SPOTTED PAPER.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. CONCLUSION.
- A MORTAL ANTIPATHY
- PREFACE.
- A MORTAL ANTIPATHY.
- FIRST OPENING OF THE NEW PORTFOLIO.
- INTRODUCTION.
- “And why the New Portfolio, I would ask?”
- THE NEW PORTFOLIO: FIRST OPENING.
- A MORTAL ANTIPATHY.
- I. GETTING READY.
- II. THE BOAT-RACE.
- III. THE WHITE CANOE.
- IV. THE YOUNG SOLITARY
- V. THE ENIGMA STUDIED.
- VI. STILL AT FAULT.
- VII. A RECORD OF ANTIPATHIES
- VIII. THE PANSOPHIAN SOCIETY.
- IX. THE SOCIETY AND ITS NEW SECRETARY.
- X. A NEW ARRIVAL.
- XI. THE INTERVIEWER ATTACKS THE SPHINX.
- XII. MISS VINCENT AS A MEDICAL STUDENT.
- XIII. DR. BUTTS READS A PAPER.
- XIV. MISS VINCENT'S STARTLING DISCOVERY.
- XV. DR. BUTTS CALLS ON EUTHYMIA.
- XVI. MISS VINCENT WRITES A LETTER.
- XVII. Dr. BUTTS'S PATIENT.
- XVIII. MAURICE KIRKWOOD'S STORY OF HIS LIFE.
- XIX. THE REPORT OF THE BIOLOGICAL COMMITTEE.
- XX. DR. BUTTS REFLECTS.
- XXI. AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION.
- XXII. EUTHYMIA.
- XXIII. THE MEETING OF MAURICE AND EUTHYMIA.
- XXIV. THE INEVITABLE.
- POSTSCRIPT: AFTER-GLIMPSES.
- PAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE
- A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
- BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER.
- (September, 1861.)
- MY HUNT AFTER “THE CAPTAIN.”
- THE INEVITABLE TRIAL
- CINDERS FROM THE ASHES.
- THE PULPIT AND THE PEW.
- MEDICAL ESSAYS
- 1842-1882
- PREFACE.
- A SECOND PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- HOMOEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS
- THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER
- Printed in 1843; reprinted with additions, 1855.
- CURRENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE
- BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.
- SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHING.
- THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS.
- THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER
- MEDICAL LIBRARIES.
- SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS
- APPENDUM
- NOTES TO THE ADDRESS ON CURRENTS AND COUNTER CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.
- JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
- A MEMOIR, Complete
- Volume I.
- I. 1814-1827. To AEt. 13.
- BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.
- II. 1827-1831. AEt. 13-17.
- COLLEGE LIFE.
- III. 1832-1833. AEt. 18-19.
- STUDY AND TRAVEL IN EUROPE.
- IV. 1834-1839. 2ET. 20-25.
- V. 1841-1842. AEt. 27-28.
- VI. 1844. AEt. 30.
- LETTER TO PARK BENJAMIN.—POLITICAL VIEWS AND FEELINGS.
- VII. 1845-1847. AEt. 31-33.
- VIII. 1847-1849. AEt. 33-35.
- IX. 1850. AEt. 36.
- PLAN OF A HISTORY.—LETTERS.
- X. 1851-1856. AEt. 37-42.
- HISTORICAL STUDIES IN EUROPE.—LETTER FROM BRUSSELS.
- XI. 1856-1857. AEt. 42-43.
- XII. 1856-1857. AEt. 42-43.
- VISIT TO AMERICA.—RESIDENCE IN BOYLSTON PLACE.
- XIII. 1858-1860. AEt. 44-46.
- RETURN TO ENGLAND.—SOCIAL RELATIONS.—LADY HARCOURT'S LETTER.
- XIV. 1859. AEt. 45.
- XV. 1860. AT. 46.
- Volume II.
- XVI. 1860-1866. AEt. 46-52.
- XVII. 1861-1863. AEt. 47-49.
- LETTERS FROM VIENNA.
- XVIII. 1866-1867. AEt. 52-43.
- RESIGNATION OF HIS OFFICE.—CAUSES OF HIS RESIGNATION.
- XIX. 1867-1868. AEt. 53-54.
- XX. 1868-1869. AEt. 54-55.
- XXI. 1869-1870. AEt. 55-56.
- RECALL FROM THE ENGLISH MISSION.—ITS ALLEGED AND ITS PROBABLE REASONS.
- Volume III.
- XXII. 1874. AEt. 60.
- “LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD.”—CRITICISMS.—GROEN VAN PRINSTERER.
- XXIII. 1874-1877. AEt. 60-63.
- XXIV. CONCLUSION.
- HIS CHARACTER.—HIS LABORS.—HIS REWARD.
- APPENDIX.
- A.
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