Married

Excerpt:
He finished his cigarette, blew out the lamp and said the Lord's Prayer in anundertone, but he got no farther than the fifth petition. Then he fell asleep.He awoke from a dream in the middle of the night. He had dreamt that he heldthe gardener's daughter in his arms. He could not remember the circumstances,for he was quite dazed, and fell asleep again directly.On the following morning he was depressed and had a headache. He broodedover the future which loomed before him threateningly and filled him withdread. He realised with a pang how quickly the summer was passing, for theend of the summer meant the degradation of school-life. Every thought of hisown would be stifled by the thoughts of others; there was no advantage in beingable to think independently; it required a fixed number of years before onecould reach one's goal. It was like a journey on a good's train; the engine was…

About Author:
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.