HOME

Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner

Author(s):

Genre(s):

Narrators: , ,

Number of Chapters: 37

Length: 15 hours and 57 minutes

Language: English

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

Listening:
Continue to listen:    
Prefaces (BettyB)
The Brahmin Caste of New England (BettyB)
The Student and his Certificate (Ashley M.)
Mr. Bernard tries his Hand (Deon Gines)
The Moth flies into the Candle (Deon Gines)
An Old-Fashioned Descriptive Chapter (Deon Gines)
The Sunbeam and the Shadow (Deon Gines)
The Event of the Season, part 1 (Deon Gines)
The Event of the Season, part 2 (Deon Gines)
The Morning After (Deon Gines)
The Doctor orders the Best Sulky (Deon Gines)
The Doctor calls on Elsie Venner (Deon Gines)
Cousin Richard's Visit (Deon Gines)
The Apollinean Institute (Deon Gines)
Curiosity (Deon Gines)
Family Secrets (Deon Gines)
Physiological (Deon Gines)
Epistolary (Deon Gines)
Old Sophy calls on the Reverend Doctor (Deon Gines)
The Reverend Doctor calls on Brother Fairweather (Deon Gines)
The Spider on his Thread (Deon Gines)
From without and from within (Deon Gines)
The Widow Rowens gives a Tea-Party, part 1 (Deon Gines)
The Widow Rowens gives a Tea-Party, part 2 (Deon Gines)
Why Doctors differ (Deon Gines)
The Wild Huntsman (Deon Gines)
On his Tracks (Deon Gines)
The Perilous Hour, part 1 (Deon Gines)
The Perilous Hour, part 2 (Deon Gines)
The News reaches the Dudley Mansion (Deon Gines)
A Soul in Distress (Deon Gines)
The Secret is Whispered, part 1 (Deon Gines)
The Secret is Whispered, part 2 (Deon Gines)
The White Ash (Deon Gines)
The Golden Cord is loosed (Deon Gines)
Mr. Silas Peckham renders his Account (Deon Gines)
Conclusion (Deon Gines)
The audiobook Elsie Venner falls under the genres of . It is written by .