Doctor Glas
  • Published: 9 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9781940436210
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 156
  • RRP: $32.99

Doctor Glas

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Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin–de–siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister's beautiful wife complains of her husband's oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.
  • Published: 9 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9781940436210
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 156
  • RRP: $32.99
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Hjalmar Soderberg

Hjalmar S-derberg, 1869-1941, was a civil servant and then a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. His novels include Martin Birck's Youth (1901), Doctor Glas (1905) - widely regarded as his masterpiece - and The Serious Game (1912). S-derberg's play Gertrud (1906) was made into a film by Carl Dreyer.

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