of a mental defect or illness. The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust I, 1808 tragedy by Goethe. The collision of a natural love-desire with her conscience and with the norms of the society around her evokes radical inner conflicts for the female hero Margarete. Mandeville, 1817 novel by William Godwin. A tale of madness that takes place during the English Civil War. The Bride of Lammermoor, 1819 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Lucy's mind snaps when she's made to jilt the man she loves and marry someone else. Diary of a Madman, 1835 farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Lenz, 1836 novella fragment by Georg Büchner depicting the unfolding of mental disorder with the German poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. The Count of Monte Cristo: 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. One of the people who wronged Dantès goes mad from the latter's vengeance. Jane Eyre, an 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë. Villette, an 1853 novel by Charlotte Brontë. Aurelia (Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie), an 1855 autobiography (posthumously published) of insanity by Gérald de Nerval. Madame Bovary, 1856 novel by Gustave Flaubert. Hard Cash, 1863 novel by Charles Reade about the injustice and poor treatment of the insane and allegedly insane. Crime and Punishment, 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Strangers and Pilgrims, 1873 novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson. Hunger (Sult in the original Norwegian), 1890 novel by Knut Hamsun depicting a man whose mind slowly turns to ruin through hunger. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 novel by Oscar Wilde, centering on a handsome, narcissistic young man enthralled by the "new" hedonism of the times. Ward Number Six, 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov. The Yellow Wallpaper, 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, 1910 mystery short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fumes from burning the powder of a toxic plant with extreme fear-inducing properties destroy the minds of those who survive its effects--unless one gets away fast. Remembrance of Things Past, 1913–1927 seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust. Swann's Way, 1913 work by Marcel Proust. Zeno's Conscience, 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. The main character is Zeno Cosini, and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist. Zeno's Conscience