Elsie Venner

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781776674114
• Edition: 0

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.

Table 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