Wit, warmth, and reflections on society, aging, and everyday life converge in this classic collection.
Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Breakfast-Table essays present a steady stream of playful intelligence and humane insight. The pieces blend humor with thoughtful observations about life in 19th‑century Boston and the broader human experience. This edition gathers the spirit of Holmes’s lively conversations, offering accessible prose, sharp wit, and moments of genuine empathy.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book, an assembly of essays and sketches originally published in a literary journal, blends humor, pathos, and philosophy in a unique concoction that explores the nature of individuality, society, and humanity. The author, having himself experienced the transition from youth to adulthood and professional life, acts as a guide for his readers as they navigate similar transitions. As a professor of anatomy, the author draws parallels between society and the human body, finding within them complex systems of interconnected parts that, when examined, reveal profound truths about their composition. This book, through its varied and insightful essays, thus becomes a meditation on the human condition, its frailties, and its resilience, and invites readers to examine not only the rapidly changing world around them but also the very nature of their humanity. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781440093678_0
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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 312 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.71 inches. This item is printed on demand. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers zk1440093679
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