August Strindberg: 82 books

50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics) Inhalt: Voltaire - Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Joseph von Eichendorff - Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein oder Der...

In his personal life, Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg placed great importance on personal development and progression, even if that process proved to be unbearably painful and disruptive. That value system is reflected throughout the novel The Growth of a Soul, a coming-of-age story in which the transition to a state of maturity and enlightenment extracts a significant cost.

On Midsummer’s Eve, Miss Julie, a young noblewoman enters into an illicit affair with her father’s valet, Jean. Worldly and cultured, Jean by turns spurns and encourages Miss Julie’s flirtation, eventually initiating a relationship with disastrous consequences for her. August Strindberg’s...

What starts out as an account of a humdrum administrative assignment is elevated to an existential examination of the meaning of life in Swedish author August Strindberg's novel On the Seaboard. A bureaucrat is sent to a remote island outpost with the task of educating the local fishermen about advances...

A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF AUGUST STRINDBERG'S MAIN WORKS THE DREAM PLAY THE LINK THE DANCE of DEATH, PART I THE DANCE of DEATH, PART II

David French’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s disturbing and enduring drama of the transgressive affair between the daughter of a count and the count’s man-servant has an eerie contemporary feel about it. French has sharpened the psychodramas of the original – scenes of desire, anger, jealousy,...

Swedish playwright August Strindberg's early works ushered in a new era of gritty realism, but his later works strayed from this style as his personal interests began to veer toward mysticism and the occult. In There Are Crimes and Crimes, what starts out as a portrayal of a complicated love affair soon turns into something much more sinister.

Swedish polymath August Strindberg delivers a fascinating volume in Historical Miniatures. Just as the title implies, these are short vignettes drawn from history and presented in narrative form. You'll learn about day-to-day life in past eras -- without the boredom and drudgery of dry textbook-style takes on history.

Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg led a remarkable life, oscillating from periods of institutionalization to an intense study of the occult and then back to working his creative magic as a producer of some of the most indelibly original plays of the twentieth century. The Son of a Servant...

A collection of stories of suspense, adventure, and romance from the German writer, August Strindberg.

Fans of well-honed satire will enjoy The Red Room, August Strindberg's no-holds-barred send-up of the pretensions of Swedish high society in the late nineteenth century. Earnest government worker Arvid Falk leaves his old life behind and tries to make a splash as a writer, but as he begins to spend more time with various elite and exclusive cliques, he becomes all the more disillusioned.

Das Kammerspiel 'Fräulein Julie', das 1888 entstand, handelt vom Verhältnis der jungen hochadeligen Julie und ihrem Diener Jean während einer Mittsommernacht und am darauffolgenden Morgen. Es spielt in der Küche des Herrensitzes von Julies Vater in einer kleinen Stadt in Schweden und behandelt...

August Strindberg schildert in diesem 1890 veröffentlichten Roman den unaufhaltsamen Abstieg des Fischereiinspektors Axel Borg, der auf eine abgelegene Schäreninsel versetzt wird, um die dortige Fischerei zu modernisieren. Borg vereinsamt angesichts der feindlich gesinnten Bevölkerung zunehmend, bis...

In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration. The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked...