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Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By Emma Elizabeth Brown

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On Sale
Feb 21, 2012
Page Count
340 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411458208

Price

$1.99

Price

$2.99 CAD

Format

ebook (Digital original)

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ebook (Digital original) $1.99 $2.99 CAD

Best known today as author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the physician, poet, and lecturer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) was one of Mark Twain’s favorite writers. This 1884 biography traces his early years and successful career in science and in writing. Brown is able to create a distinct narrative, as Holmes himself supplied her with fresh material and directed her in the making of the book.


Emma Elizabeth Brown

About the Author

Emma Elizabeth Brown (born 1847) wrote biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Her other works include Child Toilers of Boston Streets (1878), From Night to Light (1872), and Huldah, a book of verse about the American Revolution (1897).

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