TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Oliver Wendell TI - Elsie Venner AV - PS PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Didactic fiction KW - Paranormal fiction KW - Predestination -- Fiction KW - Birthmarks -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Venner; Release date is 2004-09-28; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Elsie Venner" by Oliver Wendell Holmes is a novel published in 1861. It tells the story of a mysterious young woman marked by an unusual prenatal event: her mother's rattlesnake bite during pregnancy. When teacher Bernard Langdon arrives at her school, he becomes drawn to Elsie despite sensing something unsettling about her. The novel explores profound questions about human nature, inherited traits, and moral responsibility through this strange tale of a girl caught between human and serpent worlds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2696 ER -