Mentally ill -- Fiction

Fiction that explores characters struggling with mental illness, psychological instability, or psychological obsession as central themes.

1 Book 31 min read

Summaries

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Melville, Herman

Herman Melville's epic whaling saga follows Ishmael's voyage aboard the doomed Pequod, where the monomaniacal Captain Ahab hunts the great white whale that destroyed his leg, dragging his crew into a fatal obsession with vengeance.

Mentally ill -- Fiction 31 min