Psychological

Bartleby is one of the final works of fiction published by Herman Melville before he slipped into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby Dick. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, Bartleby is often thought of as Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce decides they have had enough, and chooses to live a different kind of life?

Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs.

When Natasha meets Daniel, she knows her life is made. Rich, handsome and charming, Daniel will make the perfect husband. Even if she won’t make the perfect wife…She is thrilled when Daniel suggests an all-expenses paid cruise for Natasha, her friends, Barbara, Tracy Ann and Michelle, and their husbands. What better way to show everyone that Natasha has finally made it? But as the ship sets sail, she learns that far from being the perfect husband, Daniel has terrible secrets that are about to be revealed.

When Victoria escapes her broken home for university in London, she is determined to reinvent herself and make a fresh start. She falls in love with Nick, who welcomes her into his privileged circle of friends, opening her eyes to a world she only ever dreamt of. But things don’t go to plan and life takes a darker turn. Twenty-five years later, the circle is reunited alongside a host of glittering guests to celebrate the wedding of Hollywood darling Ingrid Olsson to well-connected Julian Draper. Victoria has spent years trying to forget Nick and put the horror of what happened behind her.

Gerry Wade is known to his houseguests as a man who can sleep the day away, so a practical joke is devised at his expense. Eight alarm clocks are set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrives, one clock is not where they left it, and the joke has unfolded with tragic consequences.

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.

Rientrato devastato dal Vietnam, Ernt Allbright decide di trasferirsi con la famiglia nella selvaggia Alaska, l'ultima frontiera americana, e iniziare una nuova vita con la moglie Cora e la figlia adolescente Leni. L'inizio è promettente, ma con l'avanzare del lungo inverno artico lo stato mentale di Ernt peggiora. Leni e Cora si trovano sole, in un luogo feroce ai confini del mondo, dove nessuno può salvarle.

Christy Ward is the lead producer of Hindsight, a true crime podcast, and she has stumbled across an unresolved triple murder case that will make the perfect next feature. Sixteen years ago, the police were convinced that they had found their killer. But the case was unexpectedly shut down, it never went to trial and their main suspect walked free. Will Christy and her team be able to solve the case, or will they be silenced too....

After her own mother mysteriously disappears, seventeen-year-old Alicia turns up on her godmother's doorstep and asks if she can stay. Carina can't say no to the godchild she hasn't seen in over a decade. And in a way, Alicia is the daughter she always wanted—she's so smart and driven, and definitely scholarship material. Carina is only too happy to help this brilliant young woman achieve her full potential. But husband Don and children Tegan and Arthur aren't so sure. There's something about Alicia… Is she just too good to be true?

Sarah Carpenter is starting over. She’s on the run—leaving behind her unsupportive, narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic, abusive mother—and headed for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists’ colony on the grounds of a closed hotel. There, with no cell signal or internet to distract her, she hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together.

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings and counting, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out “field spouses” for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex, and a spot of housework. It’s all tailored exactly to the client’s desires—no legal battles, no fights, no emotional baggage.

Anna has always been the quiet one, the soft-spoken mother who kept her head down and her secrets close. But when she's thrown together with Maggie and Rhea on a PTA project, they begin to bond over wine and gossip and slowly share the truths behind their picture-perfect lives. When the three women stumble upon a scandal the school has gone to great lengths to bury, Anna is caught in an impossible dilemma. With the centennial gala approaching, she must decide how far she's willing to go to expose the truth. Because doing so could wreck all of their perfect lives in one instant…

Inghilterra, 1643. Il Parlamento combatte contro il re, la guerra civile infuria, il fervore puritano attanaglia il Paese e il terrore della dannazione brucia dietro ogni ombra. A Manningtree, una cittadina della contea dell’Essex privata dei suoi uomini fin dall’inizio della guerra, le donne sono abbandonate a se stesse; soprattutto alcune di loro, che vivono ai margini della comunità: le anziane, le povere, le non sposate, quelle dalla lingua affilata.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Everything was perfect until tragedy brought my mother-in-law, Delores Sterling, to my front door with extra baggage at her side. After the sudden death of her husband, she asked if she could live with us temporarily. I knew that living with my mother-in-law wouldn’t be easy. She’s made it obvious ever since I married her only son that I’m not worthy of him. After all, I was his housemaid until he fell in love with the ‘help’, as Delores puts it. Because of that, I’ve kept her at arm’s length, which was easy until she knocked at my door.

Franz Kafka’s haunting novella, The Metamorphosis, tells the disturbing tale of Gregor Samsa, a young man who awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. As Gregor grapples with his shocking new reality, his once-loving family begins to recoil, viewing him as an outcast and burden. Through Kafka’s unsettling lens, this story explores themes of isolation, identity, and the fragility of human connections, as Gregor’s physical change mirrors his growing alienation from society.

Theo Fester é um inteligente e poderoso magnata do Vale do Silício, empresário mundialmente conhecido e pai de três filhos orgulhosos, frios e bem-sucedidos – mas sua história inicial foi dramática. Filho de um sobrevivente do Holocausto, ele começou a empreender para sobreviver à dor de seu pai, à pobreza e ao bullying na infância, tornando-se especialista em se reinventar.

La Máscara de la Muerte Roja de Edgar Allan Poe es una escalofriante historia ambientada en un reino ficticio asolado por una plaga mortal conocida como la Muerte Roja. El príncipe Próspero, junto con un selecto grupo de nobles, se retira a su apartada abadía para evitar el contagio. Dentro de la abadía, Prospero organiza un lujoso baile de máscaras, donde los invitados se deleitan con la decadencia y el libertinaje. Sin embargo, en medio de las festividades, aparece una figura misteriosa vestida con una túnica manchada de sangre, que simboliza la inevitabilidad de la muerte.

Es herrscht regengepeitschte Dunkelheit, als Ärztin Enya dem Opfer eines Unfalls mit Fahrerflucht erste Hilfe leistet. Die Situation weckt Erinnerungen: an ihren Sohn, der dem verletzten Jungen ähnlich sieht und sich von ihr entfremdet hat. An ihre Mutter, die in einer ebenso düsteren Nacht beim Schwimmen im Meer einen Herzinfarkt erlitt. Enya kämpft schon länger gegen diese inneren Dämonen, jetzt wird ihr alles zu viel. Sie verlässt ihre Familie, flüchtet aufs Land.

Questo romanzo è la storia dell’amore, lancinante e assoluto, di una figlia, Marie, nata da uno stupro, per la madre, Eugénie detta Génie, che, ripudiata dalla famiglia e respinta dalla comunità dopo che ha generato una bastarda, si è murata nel silenzio e nella lontananza. Una madre che sa dirle soltanto: «Non starmi sempre tra i piedi», che raramente la abbraccia; una che tutti, in paese, bollano come matta e sfruttano facendola lavorare nei campi e nelle fattorie in cambio di un po’ di frutta, di un pezzo di carne.

"La ambición del forastero" de Nathaniel Hawthorne es un relato que sigue la historia de Ethan Brand, un hombre que busca el conocimiento más allá de los límites de lo ordinario. Ethan, obsesionado con descubrir el secreto del alma humana, se retira a las montañas para experimentar y buscar la verdad. Durante años, se sumerge en sus estudios, aislándose del mundo exterior y de cualquier sentimiento de humanidad. Sin embargo, su búsqueda lo lleva a un descubrimiento aterrador que desafía su propia percepción de la realidad.

Este es un relato corto de Franz Kafka que explora la naturaleza de la pasión, el sufrimiento y la búsqueda de la perfección artística. La historia sigue a un artista del hambre que se presenta como un espectáculo de entretenimiento para el público. A medida que la historia avanza, se revela la verdadera naturaleza de su arte: ayunar hasta la muerte. A pesar del sufrimiento extremo y la agonía física, el artista se aferra a su arte como una expresión de su identidad y su devoción absoluta a su oficio.

Una mujercita es un relato corto del célebre autor Franz Kafka que explora temas de soledad, alienación y deseo humano de conexión emocional. La historia sigue a un hombre solitario que se encuentra fascinado por la presencia de una misteriosa mujer que vive en el apartamento de enfrente. A través de su observación, el hombre construye una imagen idealizada de la mujer y fantasea sobre una relación romántica con ella. Sin embargo, su ansia de conexión queda frustrada por la falta de interacción directa con la mujer, lo que lo sumerge aún más en la soledad y la desesperación.

In Jos, Nigeria, Dareng Pamson is slowly winning back the trust of his pregnant wife after his infidelity shook their marriage. When a young Muslim woman comes in out of the rain looking for work in Dareng’s auto repair shop, Dareng cautiously agrees—against his better judgment. She’s passionate and willing to learn. Besides, it’s time he started doing things differently. After being back in her hometown for only a week, Murmula Denge finds who she’s looking for: Dareng, the Christian man whose coldhearted ambition and greed shattered her family.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.