Book cover for Red Room

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August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a dramatist, but he was also a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and poetry - as well as a notable artist and photographer. Although he spent many years abroad, Strindberg was born, grew up and died in Stockholm and "The Red Room" is perhaps the quintessential Stockholm novel. A satire of the rapidly changing society of the 1870s, it was Strindberg's first novel and marked his literary breakthrough: 'it offers', he said, 'a panorama of a society I don't love and which has never loved me'. It...Read more
  • ISBN10 0460003488
  • ISBN13 9780460003483
  • Publish Date July 1967
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 October 2003
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Biblio Distribution Centre
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English