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The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Weinstein, Michael A.

U. of Missouri Press

2006

203 pages

$39.95

Hardcover

PS1992

Serious people read him; serious people still do. The problem is, many take the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as an essayist and novelist less than seriously, and dismiss him an a dilettante, however interesting and insightful his seven works of imaginative prose may be. Here Weinstein (political science. Purdue U.) follows the arc of Holmes's creative combinations of essay and fiction, from ...

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