Strindberg imagines ordinary and famous people at turning points of history in a sequence of linked stories: an ebony carver in Pharaoh’s Egypt, Athens in the time of Alcibiades and Socrates, Horace and Virgil in Rome, the Jews of Leontopolis, the coming of Attila, and a famine-stricken Rome under Pope Pelagius, moving toward the Middle Ages and beyond.
A lesser-known side of the Swedish dramatist, rich in ideas about faith and history. Download the free EPUB.