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Length11h 25m
About this audiobook
"The Red Room", written in 1879 by August Strindberg, is one of the biggest classics of Swedish literature.
A funny, satirical look at 19th century bourgeois attitudes, "The Red Room" presents a loosely-connected group of counter-cultural artistic types and has them confront their counter-cultural and progressive ideals with those of conservative, mainstream society. Most of them are poor (well, poor bourgeois types), making ends meet by pawning each other’s possessions and taking on hack work that’s beneath their dignity. Their goal is to be recognised as master-level artists by the stodgy mainstream, without having to give up their anti-mainstream ideals.
Strindberg wrote funny observations of people and attitudes, and the situations he throws at his characters are frequently entertainingly absurd.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.6 (5.6K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length11 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 30, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1. A Bird's-Eye View Of Stockholm
2Chapter 2. Between Brothers
3Chapter 3. The Artists' Colony
4Chapter 4. Master And Dogs
5Chapter 5. At The Publisher's
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6Chapter 6. The Red Room
7Chapter 7. The Imitation Of Christ
8Chapter 8. Poor Mother Country
9Chapter 9. Bills Of Exchange
10Chapter 10. The Newspaper Syndicate "Grey Bonnet"
11Chapter 11. Happy People
12Chapter 12. Marine Insurance Society "Triton"
13Chapter 13. Divine Ordinance
14Chapter 14. Absinth
15Chapter 15. The Theatrical Company "Phoenix"
16Chapter 16. In The White Mountains
17Chapter 17. Natura....
18Chapter 18. Nihilism
19Chapter 19. From Churchyard To Public-House
20Chapter 20. On The Altar
21Chapter 21. A Soul Overboard
22Chapter 22. Hard Times
23Chapter 23. Audiences
24Chapter 24. On Sweden
25Chapter 25. Checkmate
26Chapter 26. Correspondence
27Chapter 27. Recovery
28Chapter 28. From Beyond The Grave
29Chapter 29. Revue
30Chapter 30. Epilogue
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