Elsie Venner

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In this classic of the supernatural, a physician puzzles over seventeen-year-old Elsies neurosis and fiery temperonly diagnosing her when he learns that the girls mother, while pregnant, was bitten by a poisonous snake. Exploring themes of original sin and redemption in the footsteps of Hawthorne, this 1861 novel coined the term Boston Brahmin.

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