The well-beloved
Thomas Hardy
Published 1899
362 pages
Psychological fiction takes place mostly inside a character's mind. Motive, memory, guilt and obsession matter more than events, and you come to know someone more closely than they know themselves. A good fit if you read for character above all, and do not mind an uncomfortable narrator. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
Thomas Hardy
Published 1899
362 pages
George Du Maurier
Published 1894
270 pages
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Published 1864
316 pages
Charles Dickens
1870 · 1873 edition
694 pages
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Rasmus Björn Anderson
1858 · 1882 edition
214 pages
Harold Frederic, Charlyne Dodge, Stanton Garner
Published 1896
596 pages
Prosper Mérimée
Published 1891
204 pages
Anthony Trollope
Published 1874
418 pages
Susan Warner
Published 1862
710 pages
Herman Melville
Published 1856
448 pages
Anthony Trollope
1878 · 1894 edition
498 pages
Gabriele D'Annunzio
1896 · 1898 edition
438 pages
Wilkie Collins
1854 · 1856 edition
332 pages
Anthony Trollope
Published 1884
288 pages
Anthony Trollope
Published 1880
408 pages
Anthony Trollope
Published 1871
320 pages
Charles Dickens, Simon Vance
Published 1899
576 pages
Wilkie Collins
Published 1886
442 pages
Marie Corelli
1890 · 1891 edition
292 pages
Mary Cholmondeley
Published 1899
392 pages
Edmond About
1867 · 1897 edition
256 pages
Rudyard Kipling
Published 1899
342 pages
Henry Fielding
Published 1892
328 pages
William Shakespeare
1868 · 1892 edition
494 pages