Bernard Langdon, a young medical student, takes a teaching post at a girls’ school in a New England village and is drawn to Elsie Venner, a beautiful, cold, solitary pupil with glittering eyes and a mysterious affinity for the rattlesnakes of the mountain. Holmes uses her story to ask how far people can be held responsible for what they inherit.
The first novel of the doctor-poet, a curious blend of romance, Gothic and medical argument. Download the free EPUB.