TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Oliver Wendell TI - The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table AV - PS PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Poetry KW - American fiction -- 19th century KW - Conversation -- Fiction KW - Boardinghouses -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autocrat_of_the_Breakfast-Table; Release date is 1996-12-01; Transcribed from the 1873 James R. Osgood and Company edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. is a collection of essays published in 1858. Originally appearing in The Atlantic Monthly, these essays present one-sided conversations between an unnamed author and fellow residents of a New England boarding house. Topics range from aging and dwelling placement to the nature of conversation itself, delivered in a distinctly Yankee, seriocomic tone. Each essay typically concludes with a poem reflecting its themes, blending philosophy, humor, and verse into America's literary breakfast tradition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/751 ER -