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    Short Stories About Mental Illness: A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health
    Short Stories About Mental Illness: A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health
    Short Stories About Mental Illness: A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health
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    Short Stories About Mental Illness: A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health

    Written by Nikolai Gogol, Amy Levy, Catherine Wells and

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker

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    For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.

    Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be recognised as an illness, a disease rather than an affliction. We all remember horror stories of lobotomy’s and electric shock being used to ‘cure’ what society viewed as anti-social behaviour but illness, mental or physical is very real. Depression, schizophrenia, breakdown, psychosis, are alarming events to have or to witness.

    In this volume our classic authors including Sherwood Anderson, Amy Levy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barry Pain and many others explore this oft neglected and most difficult of topics.

    1 - Short Stories About Mental Illness - An Introduction

    2 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

    3 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    4 - Sokratics in the Strand by Amy Levy

    5 - A Complete Recovery by Barry Pain

    6 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

    7 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson

    8 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall

    9 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub

    10 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson

    11 - Fear by Catherine Wells

    12 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

    13 - Shut Out by F Anstey

    14 - The Miracle by John Davys Beresford

    15 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev

    16 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

    17 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

    18 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

    19 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

    20 - The City by Leonid Andreyev

    21 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

    22 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin

    23 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson

    24 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev

    25 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateNov 11, 2022
    ISBN9781803545776
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    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809–1852) was one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest writers and a profound influence on Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, and countless other authors. His best-known works include the novel Dead Souls (1842) and the stories “The Overcoat,” “The Nose,” and “Memoirs of a Madman.” In 1852, he burned most of his manuscripts, including the second part of Dead Souls. He died nine days later.  

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