- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Norvik Press (Jan 13 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1870041828
- ISBN-13: 978-1870041829
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,386,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'In the opening chapter, with its famous bird's-eye view of Stockholm, Strindberg's vivid prose sparkles with energy and invention. The hero of the novel, the young and idealistic Arvid Falk, resigns from the Civil Service in disgust at the corruption he sees everywhere in the Establishment. He wants to become a writer and joins a group of bohemian artists, but struggles to free himself from his own prim and puritan inclinations. [...] As so often in Strindberg, it is the tension between irreconcilable opposites that provides the narrative energy.' Ulf Dantanus, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die '...a scathing attack on every aspect of modern life.' Rosalind Porter, '1000 Novels Everyone Must Read', The Guardian
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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. A satire of the rapidly changing society of the 1870s, The Red Room was Strindberg's first novel and marked his literary breakthrough. It contains some of the great set-piece scenes in Swedish literature, a gallery of unforgettable caricatures in the spirit of Dickens, humor, pathos, and satirical targets as apt now as they were then. The Red Room is often called Sweden's first modern novel, and it remains modern almost a century and a half later. "[An] arresting work."-Rain Taxi
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This is a scam, April 24 2010
By J. Solomon - Published on Amazon.com
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I bought this book thinking it was, well, the book. Actually, it is paper bound together with the words from a specially scanned copy of the book. The publisher aknowledges that some of the words may not be correct and it's filled with typos. They say it has to do with the fact that no editor is involved - it is merely a machine that reads text as best as it can. There's no preface, information about the author, etc. In fact, it's just basic text, much of it filled with typos.The publisher says that this is how they can give you the book for such a low price. But at $13 for a paperback, I hardly think it's a bargain. Besides, I have no need for a book filled with typos and mistakes, even if it's free.
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