Elsie Venner
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Prefaces
8:32 -
The Brahmin Caste of New England
10:26 -
The Student and his Certificate
24:40 -
Mr. Bernard tries his Hand
37:36 -
The Moth flies into the Candle
23:25 -
An Old-Fashioned Descriptive Chapter
29:34 -
The Sunbeam and the Shadow
23:20 -
The Event of the Season, part 1
38:23 -
The Event of the Season, part 2
35:57 -
The Morning After
31:11 -
The Doctor orders the Best Sulky
9:13 -
The Doctor calls on Elsie Venner
19:03 -
Cousin Richard's Visit
30:51 -
The Apollinean Institute
26:12 -
Curiosity
30:41 -
Family Secrets
22:13 -
Physiological
30:36 -
Epistolary
28:22 -
Old Sophy calls on the Reverend Doctor
36:59 -
The Reverend Doctor calls on Brother Fairweather
18:21 -
The Spider on his Thread
25:24 -
From without and from within
24:54 -
The Widow Rowens gives a Tea-Party, part 1
29:59 -
The Widow Rowens gives a Tea-Party, part 2
26:28 -
Why Doctors differ
32:23 -
The Wild Huntsman
27:53 -
On his Tracks
23:18 -
The Perilous Hour, part 1
24:49 -
The Perilous Hour, part 2
22:59 -
The News reaches the Dudley Mansion
35:14 -
A Soul in Distress
20:45 -
The Secret is Whispered, part 1
25:13 -
The Secret is Whispered, part 2
26:12 -
The White Ash
21:00 -
The Golden Cord is loosed
32:09 -
Mr. Silas Peckham renders his Account
33:45 -
Conclusion
9:30
Elsie Venner (1891) is a public domain work.
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In Oliver Wendell Holmes's novel, a young woman's unusual temperament becomes a test of how people assign moral blame. Elsie Venner draws together a New England community, family anxieties and a speculative idea about influences before birth. Holmes explains in his prefaces that the story uses an imagined medical condition to examine inherited guilt and the religious doctrine of original sin. The opening also observes the manners and fortunes of the region's wealthy social class.
In one scene, old Sophy recounts Elsie's childhood to a minister. Her memories include a frightening quarrel, her father's concern and an unwelcome marriage prospect. The conversation gives the novel both a domestic setting and a problem for religious judgment. Readers interested in the meeting of fiction, medicine and belief can follow how personal testimony complicates abstract claims about responsibility.
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- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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