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THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

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Contents (142)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE about 3 min
  3. Chapter I about 28 min
  4. Chapter II about 26 min
  5. Chapter III about 24 min
  6. Chapter IV about 35 min
  7. Chapter V about 31 min
  8. Chapter VI about 30 min
  9. Chapter VII about 34 min
  10. Chapter VIII about 27 min
  11. Chapter IX about 34 min
  12. Chapter X about 28 min
  13. Chapter XI about 31 min
  14. Chapter XII about 41 min
  15. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE about 6 h 41 min
  16. THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE under 1 min
  17. Preface about 7 h 16 min
  18. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works (part 7 of 28) about 15 min
  19. OVER THE TEACUPS under 1 min
  20. Preface about 1 min
  21. Introduction about 6 h 20 min
  22. ELSIE VENNER under 1 min
  23. Preface about 5 min
  24. I. THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND about 6 min
  25. II. THE STUDENT AND HIS CERTIFICATE about 18 min
  26. III. MR. BERNARD TRIES HIS HAND about 23 min
  27. IV. THE MOTH FLIES INTO THE CANDLE about 14 min
  28. V. AN OLD-FASHIONED DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTER about 18 min
  29. VI. THE SUNBEAM AND THE SHADOW about 14 min
  30. VII. THE EVENT OF THE SEASON about 45 min
  31. VIII. THE MORNING AFTER about 19 min
  32. Chapter IX about 5 min
  33. X. THE DOCTOR CALLS ON ELSIE VENNER about 11 min
  34. XI. COUSIN RICHARD'S VISIT about 18 min
  35. Chapter XII about 15 min
  36. XIII. CURIOSITY about 19 min
  37. XIV. FAMILY SECRETS about 14 min
  38. XV. PHYSIOLOGICAL about 19 min
  39. XVI. EPISTOLARY about 17 min
  40. XVII. OLD SOPHY CALLS ON THE REVEREND DOCTOR about 22 min
  41. VIII. THE REVEREND DOCTOR CALLS ON BROTHER FAIRWEATHER about 10 min
  42. XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD about 16 min
  43. XX. FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN about 15 min
  44. XXI. THE WIDOW ROWENS GIVES A TEA-PARTY about 34 min
  45. XXII. WHY DOCTORS DIFFER about 20 min
  46. XXIII. THE WILD HUNTSMAN about 17 min
  47. XXIV. ON HIS TRACKS about 15 min
  48. XXV. THE PERILOUS HOUR about 31 min
  49. XXVI. THE NEWS REACHES THE DUDLEY MANSION about 23 min
  50. XXVII. A SOUL IN DISTRESS about 12 min
  51. XXVIII. THE SECRET IS WHISPERED about 32 min
  52. XXIX. THE WHITE ASH about 13 min
  53. XXX. THE GOLDEN CORD IS LOOSED about 19 min
  54. XXXI. MR. SILAS PECKHAM RENDERS HIS ACCOUNT about 20 min
  55. XXXII. CONCLUSION about 13 min
  56. I. AN ADVERTISEMENT about 6 min
  57. II. GREAT EXCITEMENT about 17 min
  58. III. ANTECEDENTS about 22 min
  59. IV. BYLES GRIDLEY, A. M about 14 min
  60. V. THE TWINS about 5 min
  61. VI. THE USE OF SPECTACLES about 7 min
  62. VII. MYRTLE'S LETTER--THE YOUNG MEN'S PURSUIT about 14 min
  63. VIII. DOWN THE RIVER about 28 min
  64. Chapter IX about 14 min
  65. X. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY FINISHES HIS LETTER--WHAT CAME OF IT about 23 min
  66. XI. VEXED WITH A DEVIL about 23 min
  67. XII. SKIRMISHING about 11 min
  68. XIII. BATTLE about 14 min
  69. XIV. FLANK MOVEMENT about 15 min
  70. XV. ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS about 10 min
  71. XVI. VICTORY about 5 min
  72. XVII. SAINT AND SINNER about 4 min
  73. XVIII. VILLAGE POET about 21 min
  74. XIX. SUSAN'S YOUNG MAN about 22 min
  75. XX. THE SECOND MEETING about 19 min
  76. XXI. MADNESS? about 11 min
  77. XXII. A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME about 10 min
  78. XXIII. MYRTLE HAZARD AT THE CITY SCHOOL about 21 min
  79. XXIV. MUSTERING OF FORCES about 13 min
  80. XXV. THE POET AND THE PUBLISHER about 17 min
  81. XXVI. MRS. CLYMER KETCHUM'S PARTY about 21 min
  82. XXVII. MINE AND COUNTERMINE about 5 min
  83. XXVIII. MR. BRADSHAW CALLS ON MISS BADLAM about 8 min
  84. XXIX. MISTRESS KITTY FAGAN CALLS ON MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY about 9 min
  85. XXX. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CALLS ON MISS CYNTHIA BADLAM about 14 min
  86. XXXI. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CONSULTS WITH JACOB PENHALLOW, ESQUIRE about 10 min
  87. XXXII. SUSAN POSEY'S TRIAL about 11 min
  88. XXXIII. JUST AS YOU EXPECTED about 18 min
  89. XXXIV. MURRAY BRADSHAW PLAYS HIS LAST CARD about 14 min
  90. XXXV. THE SPOTTED PAPER about 15 min
  91. XXXVI. CONCLUSION about 21 min
  92. A MORTAL ANTIPATHY under 1 min
  93. Preface about 2 min
  94. Introduction about 6 h 8 min
  95. PAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE under 1 min
  96. BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER about 18 min
  97. MY HUNT AFTER "THE CAPTAIN." about 1 h 18 min
  98. THE INEVITABLE TRIAL about 1 h 19 min
  99. THE PULPIT AND THE PEW about 40 min
  100. MEDICAL ESSAYS under 1 min
  101. Preface about 2 h 16 min
  102. THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER about 2 h 8 min
  103. BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE about 1 h 16 min
  104. SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHING about 50 min
  105. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS about 1 h 6 min
  106. THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER about 34 min
  107. MEDICAL LIBRARIES about 29 min
  108. SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS about 3 h 55 min
  109. Appendix about 21 min
  110. Chapter I under 1 min
  111. Chapter II under 1 min
  112. Chapter III under 1 min
  113. Chapter IV about 1 min
  114. Chapter V under 1 min
  115. Chapter VI under 1 min
  116. Chapter VII under 1 min
  117. Chapter VIII under 1 min
  118. Chapter IX under 1 min
  119. Chapter X under 1 min
  120. Chapter XI under 1 min
  121. Chapter XII under 1 min
  122. Chapter XIII under 1 min
  123. Chapter XV under 1 min
  124. XVI. EMERSON.---A RETROSPECT under 1 min
  125. Introduction about 32 min
  126. I. Birthplace.--Boyhood.--College Life about 10 min
  127. Chapter II about 6 min
  128. Chapter III about 6 min
  129. Chapter IV about 53 min
  130. Chapter V about 1 h 1 min
  131. Chapter VI about 14 min
  132. Chapter VII about 15 min
  133. Chapter VIII about 12 min
  134. Chapter IX about 15 min
  135. Chapter X about 7 min
  136. Chapter XI about 30 min
  137. Chapter XII about 12 min
  138. Chapter XIII about 14 min
  139. XIV. EMERSON'S POEMS about 29 min
  140. Chapter XV about 14 min
  141. XVI. EMERSON.--A RETROSPECT about 1 h 35 min
  142. OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE about 4 h 22 min

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THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

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