The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table (Folio Society Edition) Oliver Wendell Holmes

Join the lively, intellectual conversation at a New England boarding house breakfast table, presided over by the witty, freethinking “Autocrat.” This celebrated work is a collection of philosophical essays framed as a one-sided dialogue with his diverse table-mates—the Professor, the Landlady, and the Schoolmistress. Ranging from social commentary, science, and art to personal anecdotes and a touch of romance, this seriocomic classic offers a brilliant, urbane window into 19th-century American intellectual life.