A Mortal Antipathy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is the final volume in Holmes’s trio of what he called his “medicated novels” (Elsie Venner and The Guardian Angel being the first two); A Mortal Antipathy explores a young man’s phobia about beautiful young women after being accidentally dropped into a thorn bush as a baby by an attractive young cousin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411440500

Reviews for A Mortal Antipathy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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'What the cause of this aversion is we cannot say", 17 May 2015This review is from: A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio (Paperback)Written in 1885 by the American author and physician (his medical training becomes evident in the style of writing and the'papers' included in the text), this story is set in a lakeside resort town in the northern States. Its residents include two young lady students: the academic Miss Lurida Vincent, president of the Pansophian Society, and her beautiful and sporty friend, Miss Euphemia Tower. To the town comes a mysterious young man. He seems to be abnormally reclusive, and yet is pleasant on the odd occasion he meets anyone. When his servant lets slip that he has a 'mortal antipathy', our ladies tax their brains as to what it could possibly be a fear of...A fairly interesting read, although once the riddle is solved, the end is somewhat predictable.