Produced by David Widger
INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Compiled by David Widger
CONTENTS
## HISTORICAL MINIATURES
## MARRIED
## THE RED ROOM
## THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL
## GROWTH OF A SOUL
## THE SON OF A SERVANT
## ZONES OF THE SPIRIT
## FAIR HAVEN AND FOUL STRAND
## ON THE SEABOARD
## THE GERMAN LIEUTENANT AND OTHER STORIES
## LEGENDS
PLAYS
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
HISTORICAL MINIATURES
By August Strindberg
Translated by Claud Field
CONTENTS
PREFACE
THE EGYPTIAN BONDAGE
THE HEMICYCLE OF ATHENS
ALCIBIADES
SOCRATES
FLACCUS AND MARO
LEONTOPOLIS
THE LAMB
THE WILD BEAST
ATTILA
THE SERVANT OF SERVANTS
ISHMAEL
EGINHARD TO EMMA
THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
PETER THE HERMIT
LAOCOON
THE INSTRUMENT
OLD MERRY ENGLAND
THE WHITE MOUNTAIN
THE GREAT CZAR
THE SEVEN GOOD YEARS
DAYS OF JUDGMENT
STRINDBERG’S DEATH-BED
MARRIED
By August Strindberg
CONTENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
ASRA
LOVE AND BREAD
COMPELLED TO
COMPENSATION
FRICTIONS
UNNATURAL SELECTION OR THE ORIGIN OF RACE
AN ATTEMPT AT REFORM
A NATURAL OBSTACLE
A DOLL’S HOUSE
PHOENIX
ROMEO AND JULIA
PROLIFICACY
AUTUMN
COMPULSORY MARRIAGE
CORINNA
UNMARRIED AND MARRIED
A DUEL
HIS SERVANT OR DEBIT AND CREDIT
THE BREADWINNER
THE RED ROOM
By August Strindberg
IN MIDSUMMER DAYS
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. A Bird's-Eye View of Stockholm 1
II. Between Brothers 15
III. The Artists' Colony 24
IV. Master and Dogs 38
V. At the Publisher's 59
VI. The Red Room 70
VII. The Imitation of Christ 87
VIII. Poor Mother Country 94
IX. Bills of Exchange 107
X. The Newspaper Syndicate "Grey Bonnet" 113
XI. Happy People 124
XII. Marine Insurance Society "Triton" 135
XIII. Divine Ordinance 146
XIV. Absinth 156
XV. The Theatrical Company "Phœnix" 169
XVI. In the White Mountains 182
XVII. Natura.... 197
XVIII. Nihilism 201
XIX. From Churchyard to Public-House 212
XX. On the Altar 226
XXI. A Soul Overboard 232
XXII. Hard Times 239
XXIII. Audiences 247
XXIV. On Sweden 254
XXV. Checkmate 273
XXVI. Correspondence 290
XXVII. Recovery 299
XXVIII. From Beyond the Grave 304
XXIX. Revue 314
XXX. Epilogue 324
THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL
By August Strindberg
Translated By Ellie Schleussner
1913
CONTENTS
STRINDBERG'S WORKS
PART I
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
PART II
I
II
III
IV
PART III
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
XI
XII
XIII
PART IV
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
EPILOGUE
CONCLUDING REMARKS OF THE AUTHOR
GROWTH OF A SOUL
BY
AUGUST STRINDBERG
1914
CONTENTS
I IN THE FORECOURT
II BELOW AND ABOVE
III THE DOCTOR
IV IN FRONT OF THE CURTAIN
V JOHN BECOMES AN ARISTOCRAT
VI BEHIND THE CURTAIN
VII JOHN BECOMES AN AUTHOR
VIII THE "RUNA" CLUB
IX BOOKS AND THE STAGE
X TORN TO PIECES
XI IDEALISM AND REALISM
XII A KING'S PROTEGE
XIII THE WINDING UP
XIV AMONG THE MALCONTENTS
XV THE RED ROOM
THE SON OF A SERVANT
By August Strindberg
1913
CONTENTS
I. FEAR AND HUNGER
II. BREAKING-IN
III. AWAY FROM HOME
IV. INTERCOURSE WITH THE LOWER CLASSES
V. CONTACT WITH THE UPPER CLASSES
VI. THE SCHOOL OF THE CROSS
VII. FIRST LOVE
VIII. THE SPRING THAW
IX. WITH STRANGERS
X. CHARACTER AND DESTINY
ZONES OF THE SPIRIT
A BOOK OF THOUGHTS
August Strindberg
1913</5>
CONTENTS
A BLUE BOOK—
The Thirteenth Axiom
The Rustic Intelligence of the "Beans"
The Hoopoo, or An Unusual Occurrence
Bad Digestion
The Song of the Sawyers
Al Mansur in the Gymnasium
The Nightingale in the Vineyard
The Miracle of the Corn-crakes
Corollaries
Phantasms which are Real
Crex, Crex!
The Electric Battery and the Earth Circuit
Improper and Unanswerable Questions
Superstition and Non-Superstition
Through Faith to Knowledge
The Enchanted Room
Concerning Correspondences
The Green Island
Swedenborg's Hell
Preliminary Knowledge Necessary
Perverse Science
Truth in Error
Accumulators
Eternal Punishment
"Desolation"
A World of Delusion
The Conversion of the Cheerful Pagan, Horace
Cheerful Paganism and its Doctrine of Hell
Faith the Chief Thing
Penitents
Paying for Others
The Lice-King
The Art of Life
The Mitigation of Destiny
The Good and the Evil
Modesty and the Sense of Justice
Derelicts
Human Fate
Dark Rays
Blind and Deaf
The Disrobing Chamber
The Character Mask
Youth and Folly
When I was Young and Stupid
Constant Illusions
The Merits of the Multiplication-Table
Under the Prince of this World
The Idea of Hell
Self-Knowledge
Somnambulism and Clairvoyance in Everyday Life
Practical Measures against Enemies
The Goddess of Reason
Stars Seen by Daylight
The Right to Remorse
A Religious Theatre
Through Constraint to Freedom
The Praise of Folly
The Inevitable
The Poet's Sacrifice
The Function of the Philistines
World-Religion
The Return of Christ
Correspondences
Good Words
Severe and not Severe
Yeast and Bread
The Man of Development
Sins of Thought
Sins of Will
The Study of Mankind
Friend Zero
Affable Men
Cringing before the Beast
Ecclesia Triumphans
Logic in Neurasthenia
My Caricature
The Inexplicable
Old-time Religion
The Seduced become Seducers
Large-hearted Christianity
Reconnection with the AA
The Art of Conversion
The Superman
To be a Christian is not to be a Pietist
Strength and Value of Words
The Black Illuminati
Anthropomorphism
Fury-worship as a Penal Hallucination
Amerigo or Columbus
A Circumnavigator of the Globe
The Poet's Children
Faithful in Little Things
The Unpracticalness of Husk-eating
A Youthful Dream for Seven Shillings
Envy Nobody!
The Galley-slaves of Ambition
Hard to Disentangle
The Art of Settling Accounts
Growing Old Gracefully
The Eight Wild Beasts
Deaf and Blind
Recollections
Children are Wonder-Children
Men-resembling Men
Christ is Risen
Revolution-Sheep
"Life Woven of the Same Stuff as our Dreams"
The Gospel of the Pagans
Punished by the Imagination
Bankruptcy of Philosophy
A Whole Life in an Hour
The After-Odour
Peaches and Turnips
The Web of Lies
Lethe
A Suffering God
The Atonement
When Nations Go Mad
The Poison of Lies
Murderous Lies
Innocent Guilt
The Charm of Old Age
The Ring-System
Lust, Hate, and Fear, or the Religion of the Heathen
"Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy"
The Slavery of the Prophet
Absurd Problems
The Crooked Rib
White Slavery
Noodles
Inextricable Confusion
Phantoms
Mirage Pictures
Trifle not with Love
A "Taking" Religion
The Sixth Sense
Exteriorisation of Sensibility
Telepathic Perception
Morse Telepathy
Nisus Formativus, or Unconscious Sculpture
Projections
Apparitions
The Reactionary Type
The Hate of Parasites
A Letter from the Dead
A Letter from Hell
An Unconscious Medium
The Revenant
The Meeting in the Convent
Correspondences
Portents
The Difficult Art of Lying
Religion and Scientific Intuition
The Freed Thinker
Primus inter pares
Heathen Imaginations
Thought Bound by Law
Credo quia (et-si) absurdum
The Fear of Heaven
The Goat-god Pan and the Fear of the Pan-pipe
Their Gospel
The Deposition of the Apes
The Secret of the Cross
Examination and Summer Holidays
Veering and Tacking
Attraction and Repulsion
The Double
Paw or Hand
The Thousand-Years' Night of the Apes
The Favourite
Scientific Villainies
Necrobiosis, i.e. Death and Resurrection
Secret Judgment
Hammurabi's Inspired Laws Received from the Sun-God
Strauss's Life of Christ
Christianity and Radicalism
Where are We?
Hegel's Christianity
"Men of God's Hand"
Night-Owls
Apotheosis
Painting Things Black
The Thorn in the Flesh
Despair and Grace
The Last Act
Consequences of Learning
Rousseau
Rousseau Again
Materialised Apparitions
The Art of Dying
Can Philosophy Bring any Blessing to Mankind?
Goethe on the Bible
"Now we Can Fly Too! Hurrah"
The Fall and Original Sin
The Gospel
Religious Heathen
The Pleasure-Garden
The Happiness of Love
Our Best Feelings
Blood-Fraternity
The Power of Love
The Box on the Ear
Saul, afterwards Called Paul
A Scene from Hell
The Jewel-Casket or his Better Half
The Mummy-Coffin
In the Attic
The Sculptor
On the Threshold at Five Years of Age
Goethe on Christianity and Science
Summa Summarum
FAIR HAVEN AND FOUL STRAND
By August Strindberg
MCMXIV
CONTENTS
FAIR HAVEN AND FOUL STRAND
THE DOCTOR'S FIRST STORY
THE DOCTOR'S SECOND STORY
HERR BENGT'S WIFE
ON THE SEABOARD
A NOVEL OF THE BALTIC ISLANDS
By August Strindberg
1913
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER FIRST
CHAPTER SECOND
CHAPTER THIRD
CHAPTER FOURTH
CHAPTER FIFTH
CHAPTER SIXTH
CHAPTER SEVENTH
CHAPTER EIGHTH
CHAPTER NINTH
CHAPTER TENTH
CHAPTER ELEVENTH
CHAPTER TWELFTH
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER FOURTEENTH
THE GERMAN LIEUTENANT
And Other Stories
By August Strindberg
1915
CONTENTS
THE GERMAN LIEUTENANT
OVER-REFINEMENT
"UNWELCOME"
HIGHER AIMS
PAUL AND PETER
A FUNERAL
THE LAST SHOT
LEGENDS
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
By August Strindberg
1912
CONTENTS
I. The Possessed Exorcist
II. My Wretchedness Increases
III. My Wretchedness Increases (continued)
IV. Miracles
V. My Incredulous Friend's Troubles
VI. Miscellanies
VII. Studies in Swedenborg
VIII. Canossa
IX. The Spirit of Contradiction
X. Extracts from my Diary, 1897
XI. In Paris
XII. Wrestling Jacob
PLAYS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG
THERE ARE CRIMES AND CRIMES
INTRODUCTION
THERE ARE CRIMES AND CRIMES
CHARACTERS
ACT I
FIRST SCENE
SECOND SCENE
ACT II
FIRST SCENE
SECOND SCENE
ACT III
FIRST SCENE
SECOND SCENE
ACT IV
FIRST SCENE
SECOND SCENE
MASTER OLOF
A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS
By August Strindberg
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
MASTER OLOF
ACT I