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Elsie Venner
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This novel follows Elsie Venner, a young New England woman whose strange, serpent-like nature—traced to a snakebite suffered by her mother during pregnancy—raises questions of moral responsibility and free will. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century American literature and early psychological fiction.
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