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The Red Room

First published: 1879
Pages: 267

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01 - A Bird's-Eye View of Stockholm
29:34
02 - Between Brothers
18:05
03 - The Artists' Colony
26:44
04 - Master and Dogs
41:06
05 - At the Publisher's
22:00
06 - The Red Room
31:15
07 - The Imitation of Christ
13:51
08 - Poor Mother Country
24:26
09 - Bills of Exchange
11:01
10 - The Newspaer Syndicate 'Grey Bonnet'
23:29
11 - Happy People
22:08
12 - Marine Insurance Society 'Triton'
20:28
13 - Divine Ordinance
19:43
14 - Absinth
24:16
15 - The Theatrical Company 'Phoenix'
23:36
16 - In the White Mountains
26:40
17 - Natura....
5:40
18 - Nihilism
20:16
19 - From Churchyard to Public-House
23:45
20 - On the Altar
8:21
21 - A Soul Overboard
11:07
22 - Hard Times
12:11
23 - Audiences
10:46
24 - On Sweden
34:01
25 - Checkmate
29:24
26 - Correspondence
16:11
27 - Recovery
9:07
28 - From Beyond the Grave
17:57
29 - Revue
18:31
30 - Epilogue
9:03

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The Red Room is the novel that made August Strindberg's name, published in 1879 and often called the first modern Swedish novel. Its hero, the idealistic young civil servant Arvid Falk, abandons his dull government post to become a writer and throws himself into the bohemian world of Stockholm's artists, journalists, and reformers, who gather in the red room of a favourite restaurant. What he finds, as he tries to live by his principles, is a society riddled with humbug, corruption, and self-interest at every level, from charities to newspapers to the church. Sharp, satirical, and full of youthful energy, the book skewers the respectable world of its day. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.

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August Strindberg

August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, essayist, and painter whose experiments with realism, satire, psychology, and expressionism reshaped modern Scandinavian literature.