PDF Books in Psychological Fiction
Twixt Land & Sea - Tales
by Joseph ConradThis collection of three tales is known primarily for the middle one, "The Secret Sharer" -- Conrad's best-known short story excepting "Heart of Darkness." The binder made an error on the binding of 'TWIXT LAND & SEA, revealed by this copy: on the front cover he listed the third tale as "Freya of the Secret Isles." Excerpts from the book"..
Pierre; or The Ambiguities
by Herman MelvillePierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancee; and Isab..
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. In Hawthorne (1879), Henry James called it the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's unhumorous fictions. The story takes place primarily in the utopian community of Blithedale, presumably in the mid-1800s. The main character, Miles Coverdale, embarks on a quest f..
The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and tr..
Armadale
by Wilkie CollinsArmadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White and No Name, and before The Moonstone. The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, ide..
Basil
by Wilkie CollinsBasil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil was published in 1852 and dedicated to Charles Ward. It was Collins's second full-length work of fiction and first contemporary novel. In the introduction, he warns the reader that he has 'not hesitated to violate the conventiona..
The Black Robe
by Wilkie CollinsWilkie Collins’s 1881 The Black Robe tells the story of the misadventures of Lewis Romayne in a novel which deals with depression, madness, a fatal duel, marital breakdown, capture by South American ‘natives’, ill-motivated religious conversion, bigamy and disinheritance. The somewhat mad premise is that scheming Jesuit Father Branwell is out to wi..
The Evil Genius - A Domestic Story
by Wilkie CollinsCollins' most financially successful novel, The Evil Genius, opens with a jury determining the fate of a sea captain whose ship allegedly facilitated a diamond theft. The story develops into a powerful novel of Victorian private life, including deception, adultery and divorce. The story was ahead of its time in presenting both the wife and the..