The Newsboys' Lodging-House: Or The Confessions Of Willilam James--A Novel

The Story

'William James, psychologist and philosopher, one of the founding fathers of modern American thought, suffered a devastating mental collapse when he was thirty years old. Obsessing about evil's existence in a godly world, he found himself unable to work or sleep, and contemplated suicide. Months later, he emerged from his isolation with a surer sense of self and a new clarity of purpose. No one knows what happened in the interim as forty-two pages had been cut out of his diary.