The Interior Life: The long project of looking inward

Before psychology had a name, novelists, mystics, and diarists were mapping the inner world. Here is the literature of consciousness — confession, introspection, and the self examined from inside.

In this collection

• The Valley of the Shadow
• On Rest
• The Penalties of Greatness
• Words
• Be Not Attached
• The Perfume of Eros
• Abandoned
• A Night
• The Jesters of the Lord
• The Tide
• Spanish and Italian Genius
• The Four Angels
• This Is Not a Story
• The Problems of Philosophy
• If One Should Dive Deep
• Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits
• Chats with Children
• Meno II
• Jaiva
• Gautami
• Playing Dead
• Down
• Wood-Magic
• Ole, the Watchman of the Tower
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