Heiraten: Zwanzig Ehegeschichten by August Strindberg

"Heiraten: Zwanzig Ehegeschichten" by August Strindberg is a collection of short stories first published in 1884. The work presents twenty marriages of varying kinds, exploring relationships from egalitarian partnerships to darker portrayals. Strindberg's preface supports women's rights while criticizing aspects of the feminist movement and challenging Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House." A controversial second volume followed in 1886, addressing unconventional relationships. The first volume sparked a blasphemy prosecution that resulted in Strindberg's acquittal, making the collection a landmark of Scandinavian literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
Translator Schering, Emil, 1873-1951
Uniform Title Giftas. German
Title Heiraten: Zwanzig Ehegeschichten
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Married_(collection)
Note Translation of Giftas.
Credits Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This ebook was created in honor of Distributed Proofreaders' 20th Anniversary. It was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Sweden -- Fiction
Subject Marriage -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 66847
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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