Pages From An Old Volume Of Life

Pages From an Old Volume of Life is a collection of essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), the American physician, Harvard professor of anatomy, and man of letters who was one of the most popular American writers of the nineteenth century. The collection gathers occasional pieces written between 1857 and 1881, including his wartime essays from the Atlantic Monthly such as Bread and the Newspaper and My Hunt After the Captain, the account of his search for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court justice, after the Battle of Antietam. Other essays cover mechanism in thought and morals, the physiology of versification, and crime and automatism. The book shows the conversational essay style Holmes perfected in his Breakfast-Table series. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.