Elsie Venner


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(4.4 stars; 9 reviews)

Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interrupt his studies for a time in order to earn money with which to fund the rest of his degree. He therefore leaves Boston in order to teach at a school in a village in the area. One of his students is Elsie Venner, a seventeen year-old girl, who is avoided by her peers and keeps apart. Somehow, Elsie exerts a great fascination on Langdon, as there is something distinctly different about her with her strangeness and quick temper.
Elsie Venner is one of Oliver Wendell Holmes' "medicated novels", in which he explores a medical condition of a character. Holmes was teaching at Harvard Medical School when this book was published, and he chose to let a professor of medicine narrate the story. Elsie Venner is notable for its strong Boston local colour, being at the same time the book in which Holmes coined the term "Boston Brahmin". - Summary by Carolin (15 hr 57 min)

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Prefaces 8:32 Gelesen von BettyB
The Brahmin Caste of New England 10:26 Gelesen von BettyB
The Student and his Certificate 24:40 Gelesen von Ashley M.
Mr. Bernard tries his Hand 37:36 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Moth flies into the Candle 23:25 Gelesen von Deon Gines
An Old-Fashioned Descriptive Chapter 29:34 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Sunbeam and the Shadow 23:20 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Event of the Season, part 1 38:23 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Event of the Season, part 2 35:57 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Morning After 31:11 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Doctor orders the Best Sulky 9:13 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Doctor calls on Elsie Venner 19:03 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Cousin Richard's Visit 30:51 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Apollinean Institute 26:12 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Curiosity 30:41 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Family Secrets 22:13 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Physiological 30:36 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Epistolary 28:22 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Old Sophy calls on the Reverend Doctor 36:59 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Reverend Doctor calls on Brother Fairweather 18:21 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Spider on his Thread 25:24 Gelesen von Deon Gines
From without and from within 24:54 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Widow Rowens gives a Tea-Party, part 1 29:59 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Widow Rowens gives a Tea-Party, part 2 26:28 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Why Doctors differ 32:23 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Wild Huntsman 27:53 Gelesen von Deon Gines
On his Tracks 23:18 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Perilous Hour, part 1 24:49 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Perilous Hour, part 2 22:59 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The News reaches the Dudley Mansion 35:14 Gelesen von Deon Gines
A Soul in Distress 20:45 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Secret is Whispered, part 1 25:13 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Secret is Whispered, part 2 26:12 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The White Ash 21:00 Gelesen von Deon Gines
The Golden Cord is loosed 32:09 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Mr. Silas Peckham renders his Account 33:45 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Conclusion 9:30 Gelesen von Deon Gines

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Unique blend...


(3.5 stars)

This story is a unique blend of medicine, melodrama, romance, social satire, scientific speculation, and theology; something for everyone! (Attention Editors: in several places, between chapters mostly, the narrator is heard practicing a phrase several times or clearing her throat. )