Psychology through literature

by Caroline Shrodes (Editor)

The physical heritage. Somerset Maugham / from Of human bondage
William Shakespeare / from King Henry the Sixth
from King RIchard the Third
William Saroyan / And man
Thomas Wolfe / from Look homeward, Angel -- The influence of the family. Samuel Butler / from The way of all flesh
André Lichtenberger / from Trott and his little sister
Marcel Proust / from Swann's way
Virginia Woolf / from To the lighthouse
Louis Bromfield / from A good woman -- Social and economic pressures. Virginia Woolf / The new dress
Theodore Dreiser / from An American tragedy
Vincent Sheean / from Personal history
Sally Benson / Wife of the hero
William Faulkner / Dry September
Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe
Floyd Dell / from Homecoming -- Emotional conflicts. William Shakespeare / from Othello
Thomas Hardy / from The return of the native
Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe
James T. Farrell / Helen, I love you
Leonid Andreyev / from The seven that were hanged
William Ellery Leonard / from The locomotive-God
Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe
Richard Wright / from Native son
Stephen Crane / from The red badge of courage
Leo Tolstoy / from War and peace -- The learning process. Marcel Proust / from Swann's way
Richard Aldington / from Death of a hero
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / from Confessions
Aldous Huxley / from Brave new world -- Dreams and the unconscious. Millen Brand / from The outward room
Robert Louis Stevenson / A chapter on dreams
Conrad Aiken / from Blue voyage
James Joyce / from Ulysses
Thomas De Quincey / from Confessions of an English opium-eater
Marcel Proust / from The Guermantes way
Sean O'Casey / from I knock at the door -- The neuroses. Gustave Flaubert / from Madame Bovary
D.H. Lawrence / from Sons and lovers
Guy de Maupassant / from Pierre and Jean
Cotton Mather / from Diary
William Shakespeare / from Macbeth
from Richard the Second
Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe
Robert Browning / Pictor Ignotus
Somerset Maugham / from The moon and sixpence -- The psychoses. Willa Cather / Paul's case
Clifford Beers / from A mind that found itself
Robert Browning / Porphyria's lover
José Garcia Villa / The son of Rizal
Fyodor Dostoyevsky / from The brothers Karamazov

389 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1964