psychological fiction

Contains the complete text of "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Mrs. Dalloway's Party" plus various journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the genesis and writing of her stories as well as essays, critical reviews, and commentary by various authors.

A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the early twentieth-century novel "Heart of Darkness, " and its author Joseph Conrad.

After finding out he is part machine, sixteen-year-old Robert Smith runs from the covert government agents who are trying to pin a murder on him, and together with Eddi, a nineteen-year-old criminal, tries to uncover his true identity.

Sixteen-year-old Will Heller, a paranoid schizophrenic, boards an uptown B train in search of Emily Wallace, who he believes is the only one who can help him cool down--and save--the world, a journey which causes Will's mother Violet to work with Ali Lateef, a missing person's specialist, to locate her missing son.

Four visitors to Hill House are unaware that the old evil mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.

A respected London doctor invents a formula which turns him into an evil and ugly person who stalks the streets at night killing people, and by the time his friends discover his secret, it is too late.

In the community of Holt, Colorado, Victoria Roubideaux goes to college, leaving the McPheron brothers, who took her in when she was pregnant; DJ, a boy who lives alone with his grandfather, befriends two sisters whose father left them; and the children of a disabled couple face harassment at school.

Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.

Christopher Newman, a wealthy American, goes to Europe to enjoy his wealth and becomes engaged. Her family is against the engagement and has it annulled. Newman is confronted with a moral dilemma when the possibility of revenge presents itself.