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American author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. draws on his medical background to lend credence to the creepy central premise of his novel Elsie Venner. When a woman suffers a snakebite during pregnancy, the trauma leads to unforeseen -- and horrific -- consequences.
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Publisher
The Floating PressYear
2016eBook ISBN
9781776674114Edition
0Table of contents
- ELSIE VENNER
- Contents
- Preface
- A Second Preface
- Preface to the New Edition
- Chapter I - The Brahmin Caste of New England
- Chapter II - The Student and His Certificate
- Chapter III - Mr. Bernard Tries His Hand
- Chapter IV - The Moth Flies into the Candle
- Chapter V - An Old-Fashioned Descriptive Chapter
- Chapter VI - The Sunbeam and the Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Event of the Season
- Chapter VIII - The Morning After
- Chapter IX - The Doctor Orders the Best Sulky. (With a Digression on "Hired Help")
- Chapter X - The Doctor Calls on Elsie Venner
- Chapter XI - Cousin Richard's Visit
- Chapter XII - The Apollinean Institute. (With Extracts from the "Report of the Committee")
- Chapter XIII - Curiosity
- Chapter XIV - Family Secrets
- Chapter XV - Physiological
- Chapter XVI - Epistolary
- Chapter XVII - Old Sophy Calls on the Reverend Doctor
- Chapter XVIII - The Reverend Doctor Calls on Brother Fairweather
- Chapter XIX - The Spider on His Thread
- Chapter XX - From Without and from Within
- Chapter XXI - The Widow Rowens Gives a Tea-Party
- Chapter XXII - Why Doctors Differ
- Chapter XXIII - The Wild Huntsman
- Chapter XXIV - On His Tracks
- Chapter XXV - The Perilous Hour
- Chapter XXVI - The News Reaches the Dudley Mansion
- Chapter XXVII - A Soul in Distress
- Chapter XXVIII - The Secret is Whispered
- Chapter XXIX - The White Ash
- Chapter XXX - The Golden Cord is Loosed
- Chapter XXXI - Mr. Silas Peckham Renders His Account
- Chapter XXXII - Conclusion