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Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1906 · Scanned text · Free in the US
178,424 words · about 12 h 30 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1906, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/unk85039709); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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About this book
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1906
- Length
- 178,424 words · about 12 h 30 min
- Sections
- 24 reader sections
- Text
- Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
- Rights
- Public domain in the United States
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Contents (24)
- Front matter about 5 min
- Contents about 41 min
- I. When the green earth, beneath the about 4 min
- II about 3 min
- III. When florid Peace resumed her golden about 4 min
- IV. But once again, from their iEolian about 1 min
- V. Though round the Muse the robe of about 1 h 50 min
- Part First. The Knight about 2 min
- Part Second. The Maiden about 4 min
- Part Third. The Conquest about 2 min
- Part Fourth. The Rescue about 2 min
- Part Fifth. The Reward about 2 min
- Conclusion about 1 h 56 min
- Prologue about 47 min
- VI. Questioning about 2 min
- VII. Worship about 2 min
- VIII. Manhood about 3 min
- IX. Rights about 6 min
- XI. But what is this ? about 3 min
- XII. Love about 3 min
- Epilogue To The Breakfast-table Series about 2 h 4 min
- CANTO FIRST. Old Rip Van Winkle had a grandson about 4 min
- CANTO SECOND. 8o thirty years had past — but not a about 1 h 19 min
- Introduction To A Collection Of Poems By Different Authors about 2 h 59 min
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