Why Is The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky Considered A Psychological Novel?

Luca Graven, an orphan cursed by poverty, worked under the man loathed the most— Dante Solis. He was a wealthy, powerful mafia leader who had the strongest men, including Luca himself cowering in fear. Unfortunately, Dante took a liking to him. He brought him into his home, enslaved him, treated him like rubbish….but, he never hurt him beyond his limits. Maybe that was why Luca never fully hated him, and maybe, just maybe, that was why he wanted him. Until, a new version of him shows up. He looked exactly like Dante, same voice even, but completely different personalities. This version listened, cared for him, no longer saw him as a mere slave, he nurtured him and treated him like he meant something for once. Of course to Luca, Dante had miraculously grown a heart but that person that showed him kindness and mercy wasn’t Dante. It was Allen Pierce—his doppelganger. Now torn between two different people, yet drawn to each of them and their different souls, he has to make a decision. But they don’t make it easy. Luca wasn’t the only one fighting to choose, they were both fighting to be chosen.

Reva Aldridge did not choose this life. It was chosen for her. She woke up in a luxury hotel room in Milan with no memory of the night before and a face she recognized looking back at her. The face of Nico Castellano. The most powerful mafia boss on the East Coast of Italy. The man her sister Petra was supposed to marry. Petra had wanted out of the engagement so she drugged her younger sister and sent her in her place. Now the scandal has spread. The Castellano name has been attached to Reva's, and there is only one way to fix it. She becomes his contract wife but the terms are brutal. She is expected to give him an heir. She has no choice because her family has already decided for her. Reva moves into Casa Castellano in Sicily and tries to survive. But something is wrong; her husband is not the same man from one day to the next. Some nights he is cold and controlled, and other nights he is different, softer in ways she cannot explain. A different scent and hands that feel like they belong to someone else. She tells herself she is imagining it. She is not. There are two of them. Twins. And they have both been with her without her knowing. Now that she knows the truth, they are both refusing to let her go. The devil does not wear one face. He wears two. And Reva belongs to both of them.

I knew my husband, Giovanni Rossini, had done it. He had stolen his dead twin brother's identity and faked his own death. And I said nothing. In my last life, he had discarded me and our daughter, Natalia, for his mistress, Katrina Moretti. My mother-in-law, Antonietta, called us trash and forced my five-year-old to peel olives until her small hands blistered. I knelt and begged for money to buy medicine. Giovanni only held Katrina and laughed. In the end, Natalia and I froze and starved to death. Even as we died, Katrina's mocking voice still rang in my ears. Everyone watched with cold eyes. They closed ranks, shifted the blame onto me, and shoved us toward a dead end with no escape. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back at the exact moment they carried Marco's body into the warehouse. This time, I wouldn't let anyone destroy us. I would make them pay twice over for everything they had done to me and my daughter.

Sophie Ashford and her identical twin Charlotte have spent their lives being compared, confused, and quietly resented by each other. When Charlotte vanishes four days before her arranged wedding to Julian Calloway — heir to a shipping empire and the man their families have spent a decade maneuvering to unite — Sophie steps in to save face, planning to stall just long enough for Charlotte to be found. She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself Julian won't notice.He notices immediately. Julian has known something was wrong with Charlotte for months — the woman he was engaged to felt like a stranger long before her twin took her place. He doesn't expose Sophie. Instead, he watches her, testing her, drawn to her in a way he never was to her sister, and slowly Sophie realizes he's not trying to catch her in a lie. He's trying to find out why she's telling it and the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember which parts of herself she's still pretending.

I knew mixing in with the elite was too good to be true. Was ready to give my heart to a man who was cold once moment, then hot and steamy the next. Turned out, I was right to have been weary as I was just a game for them. A shared secret. A punchline to the elite's amusement. Well, to all but one person. They planned to humiliate me on my wedding day, but with Dominic's help, we will ruin their ending and create our own. This time, I am choosing the other twin.

Sophia loved until love almost killed her, she was in an abusive marriage with a man whose family power silenced every truth. After finding out she was pregnant, the doctor warned her that if she loses this pregnancy she might never be able to conceive again. Despite that, her husband beats her till she loses the pregnancy. When he noticed she's barely alive, he and his family sent someone to throw her into the river to completely erase her existence. She thought she would die that night, but she was saved by a man who looked exactly like the monster who destroyed her. Marcus–the identical twin of her ex-husband, a man stripped of his birth right and silenced by the same family who destroyed her. Driven by his own taste of revenge Marcus offered her a deal to marry him in exchange for power, wealth and protection but she refused–until her sister is falsely sentenced to prison by the same people who tried to kill her. Realizing she stands no chance against those people, Sophia accepts the proposal for power. And the name Sophia died the day she entered the marriage, and Astrid Vitale was born. Love was never part of the deal. Yet somewhere between shared night Sophia finds herself obsessing over the man she should never love. Will falling in love weaken her taste for revenge or sharpen it? What will happen when her ex husband and his family discover the woman they erased as returned as the wife of the man they thought they killed? And when Sophia uncovers the secret Marcus has been hiding, a truth capable of destroying everything between them, she must decide, If she'll choose love…..or forgive him. In a world ruled by lies and power, Survival is the only beginning.