Fiction - Psychological

Author: W. Somerset MaughamISBN-10: 1604505591ISBN-13: 9781604505597Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2008Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.13w x 0.45d

Ethan Mueller, the narrator of Brother Carnival, has suffered a crisis of faith and is on the brink of taking his own life when he is informed by his father that he has an estranged brother who is an author. Whereupon he is handed...

"Tim" (1891) is a delicate portrayal of a sensitive boy's devoted affection for an older boy-a very touching story of a tender and self-forgetful character. --- Howard Overing Sturgis (1855-1920) was an English writer, the author of only three novels: "All That Was Possible,"...

Author: Rus MorganISBN-10: 1587213176ISBN-13: 9781587213175Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1999Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.07h x 5.07w x 0.78d

He Knew He Was Right is an 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a wilful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there are...

A Christmas Horror Short Story.Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle all the way.Oh what fun, It is to hide;To slaughter and to slayAuthor: Holly JaneISBN-10: 1548816086ISBN-13: 9781548816087Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2018Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.27d

Mary Therese Panos, "Mae," has been let down by too many people in her life. When she is ten years old, she is shipped off to boarding school by her uncle. She clings to the dream that her mother will rescue her from her...

The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices...

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed...

Full text.In this short novel, the hero Alexei Ivanovich, in his devotion to the roulette table, believes in the truth of chance. And, through that belief, he is revealed to believe in nothing. He is a lost soul who loses all: love, status, wealth,...

"This story surely has the pure Stevenson ring, the adventurous glamour, the vertebrate stoicism. 'Tis is surely the story of the making of a man, the sculptor being Captain Larsen, and the clay, the ease-loving, well-to-do, half-drowned man, to all appearances his helpless prey."...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. His literature examines human psychology during the turbulent social, spiritual and political atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and he is considered one of the greatest psychologists in world...

"Bobok" is a 1873 short story by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is presented as the diary of Ivan Ivanovitch, a writer who goes to a funeral where he falls into deep contemplation. After a while, he begins to hear the voices of the...

Margaret Oliphant's novel 'Hester - The Story of Contemporary Life' was originally published in 1883. Margaret Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. During her career she wrote more than 120 works, including novels travelogues, histories and...

When Sara McCauley learns that her ex-husband is to be released from prison, she uproots her eight-year-old daughter, Tori, and moves to the neighboring town of Edgemont. The two of them take up residence in the home of Miss Ella Larkin, a semi-invalid whom...

The Last Day of a Condemned Man Le Dernier jour d'un condamn ]Victor HugoTranslated by Eugenia De B.The Last Day of a Condemned Man (French: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamn ) is a short novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. The novel...

When publiched, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become...

In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with...

Virgin Soil is an 1877 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It was Turgenev's sixth and final novel as well as his longest and most ambitious. The novel centres on a depiction of some of the young people in late nineteenth century Russia who decided to...

Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!It is early April 1853. Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness. The Vice President,...

The poverty-stricken vagabond Barron Desulfer, addicted to drugs and alcohol and once a professor and renowned writer, decides to turn his life around. By chance, he meets up with an ex military Colonel, Ken, who is looking for someone to write his autobiography; this...

Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are (1794) is a novel by English writer and political philosopher William Godwin. Published a year after the appearance of his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are is a thriller and mystery...

Uncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the author's most popular novel. It has been adapted several times...

Wieland (1798) is a novel by American author Charles Brockden Brown. Considered the first American Gothic novel, this a story of psychological horror and occult mystery based on the real-life James Yates Murders. The novel follows the Wieland family, whose father immigrated to the...

Jim is a young seaman, who's faced with a life or death scenario, and chooses self-preservation over the well-being of his unsuspecting passengers and crew. One impulsive act permanently damages his career, dramatically changing his future. Jim is a young man who's enamored by...

Paris (1898) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Paris is the final installment in Zola's celebrated Three Cities Trilogy. Published toward the end of Zola's career, the trilogy is an ambitious, sweeping study of one man's struggle with faith in political, religious,...

Raised by a single Swedish philosopher, Axel Heyst inherits his father's pessimistic view of society. As a child, he is taught about all the dark inclinations of humankind, warping his mind. Axel struggles with these beliefs and the atmosphere of the environment in which...

An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Written and rewritten over a number of years, An American Tragedy is a weighty epic with a cleareyed vision of the decay at the heart of industrialized society. Based on the murder of Grace...

The Titan (1914) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The second installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Preceded by The...

The Ebb-Tide (1894) is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Published the year of Stevenson's death from tuberculosis, the last of three collaborations between the legendary Scottish storyteller and his stepson is a story of adventure, friendship, and greed. Although less...

Wormwood (1890) is a novel by Marie Corelli. Published at the beginning of Corelli's career as one of the most successful writers of her generation, Wormwood combines realism, social commentary, and family drama to tell a story of murder, revenge, and addiction set in...

The Civil Wars (c. 150) is a work of political and military history by Appian. Written toward the end of his career as a leading advocate in Rome, The Civil Wars is comprised of books 13-17 of The Roman History, Appian's 24-book study of...

A gambler himself, both at the gaming tables and in life, Fyodor Dosteyevsky's The Gambler was completed in time to keep the author's debts from catching up to him. Had he not met the deadline, Dostoyevsky's work for the next nine years would be...

The world of professional show-jumping is glamorous, intense and gruelling - and not without danger. But now someone is trying to make it more dangerous still. Polly Morgan and Dan Roberts are at the heart of a group of horsemasters, who all have their...

In Virgin Soil, Turgenev biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions about what their future held in store. The story of a young couple, torn between love and politics,...

Colt Beretta awakens inside a prison his alcoholic, abusive father created--a corn crib on their dilapidated farm. Determined to free himself from his life of fear, Colt escapes and begins a new life, a life of healing and transformation through therapy, friendship, music, and...

Welcome to the Jetty Cat Palace Caf where synchronicity and wonder abound Morgen, a quirky music teacher and pianist, is devastated when she learns that her mother, also a concert pianist, became pregnant with her after a sexual assault and abandoned her life as...

The story of a love triangle played out through mutual manipulation Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of quiet compromise--until one day she bumps into her old theater...

Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim's progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior. Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea...

How far would you go to achieve the optimal version of yourself?In Grace Kwak's debut novel, The Glitch, an engineer named Ethel lives in a techno-utopia that's devoid of errors. The data-driven system assigns her a successful career path, friendships, hobbies, and even a...

A New York Times bestseller and a "Best Thriller of the Year" Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. Who would...

Jeff Corley, MD, a cosmetic dentist and the eldest sibling of the Corley family was born broken and afraid, lacking what is needed to form a healthy personality. As he grew, family events revealed Jeff's deadly fear of bees, and he became convinced that...

Pretty and popular, sixteen-year-old Mariah Ebinger is the typical American teen. Well, except for the weird dreams. And the helicopter phobia. And the--OK, this is pretty strange--the ability to speak Spanish. She's, like, never even heard Spanish! But except for that stuff, totally typical....

Jay Chandler, an American archaeologist excavating an ancient Greek temple, is surprised to find himself invited to a weeklong party on an exotic island paradise owned by eccentric tycoon Alexander Krisos. The annual event-swarmed with European nobility, Texas oilmen, ballerinas and bullfighters, millionaire politicos...

The Director: Visionary and perverse, he coaxes and prods his cast and crew as he tries to bend them to his will in the pursuit of his surrealistic masterpiece. The Actress: Ravishing beautiful, she despises the filmmaker almost as much as she fears him....

In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on...

"Originally published in Estonian as Raadio by Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, Tallinn, 2002 Copyright (c) 2002 Tonu Onnepalu."Author: Tonu OnnepaluISBN-10: 1628970081ISBN-13: 9781628970081Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/18/2014Pages: 573Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.70d

A Tale, Inspired by a True Story, of a Woman Who Would Not Become Bitter"It's okay. Filip is only showing off in front of his friends. It's what boys do. It's best to pay no mind and to keep quiet. Smile at him, then...

A lighter thriller, in the vein of Nelson Demille, unfolding in the world of Silicon Valley billionaires and the women who seek and use them for their money. The man: Wolfgang Schmitt: former model, newly single, habitual wiseass. It's a profile only his ailing...

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr....