Strindberg’s stories dissect married life in the Sweden of the 1880s: couples ruined by money worries in Love and Bread, a wife who cannot bear motherhood, a husband trying a modern equal marriage in An Attempt at Reform, and the frictions of daily life. The book brought a prosecution for blasphemy in 1884, and its views of women grow sharply hostile.
Bitter, candid and modern, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Strindberg or the marriage debates of his age. Download the free EPUB.