Riven Rock
Title | Riven Rock PDF eBook |
Author | T. C. Boyle |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408826798 |
This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women's suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole. Based on a true story of love, madness and sexuality this is a tragic book with enormous depth and scope. Set in America at the turn of the century, it is full of fascinating historical detail.
Madhouse
Title | Madhouse PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Scull |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780300107296 |
A shocking story of medical brutality perfomed in the name of psychiatric medicine.
Prologue
Title | Prologue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 968 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Archives |
ISBN |
The Open Court
Title | The Open Court PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Carus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 942 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
The Open Court
Title | The Open Court PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 810 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Title | Myst: The Book of Atrus PDF eBook |
Author | Rand Miller |
Publisher | Hyperion |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995-11-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786861590 |
Based on the best-selling CD-ROM game on the market, a novel fills out the lives of the game's characters, tracing the strange apprenticeship of Atrus to his father, Gehn, who wields the power to create worlds.
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia. Department of Health |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Public health |
ISBN |
Issues for 1915/16-1925/26 include Report of the State Board of Health.