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By the Open Sea

August Strindberg

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Axel Borg, a man in his thirties, has been appointed superintendent of fisheries on one of the small islands in the Stockholm Archipelago. Like Strindberg at that age, he is a prophet without honor, his achievements having won him distinction only in foreign countries. On the island he has to combat pig-headedness and ignorance, and he is settling down with much self-pity to a long grind, when that creature whom he classifies as only a short remove from the child comes to cause further disturbance - a woman. For a time the uninitiated will suspect that a pretty love story is in the make, but others will observe the scientific analysis which Borg applies to even his happiest moments.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: June 02, 1987

ISBN: 0140444882

ISBN 13: 9780140444889

By the Open Sea

August Strindberg

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Axel Borg, a man in his thirties, has been appointed superintendent of fisheries on one of the small islands in the Stockholm Archipelago. Like Strindberg at that age, he is a prophet without honor, his achievements having won him distinction only in foreign countries. On the island he has to combat pig-headedness and ignorance, and he is settling down with much self-pity to a long grind, when that creature whom he classifies as only a short remove from the child comes to cause further disturbance - a woman. For a time the uninitiated will suspect that a pretty love story is in the make, but others will observe the scientific analysis which Borg applies to even his happiest moments.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: June 02, 1987

ISBN: 0140444882

ISBN 13: 9780140444889

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