Literary Fiction
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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
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