Elsie Venner

<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/11800.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Elsie Venner</u><br><span>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. <br/></br><i>Elsie Venner</i> 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. <i>Elsie Venner</i> is notable for its strong Boston local colour, being at the same time the book in which Holmes coined the term "Boston Brahmin".</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />