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Röda Rummet
by August Strindberg
Röda Rummet is a novel by August Strindberg, published in 1879. It is a satirical novel that explores the themes of class, politics, and the human condition. The novel is considered to be a part of Strindberg’s early, naturalistic period.
- Tjänsteqvinnans son(1886)
- Hemsöborna(1887)
- I havsbandet(1890)
- Inferno(1897)
Kungsbacksomnibussarna hoppade skallrande fram på den kullriga stenläggningen; stoj och hojt i fiskargången, segel och flaggor som fladdrade ute på strömmen, måsarnas skri, hornsignaler från Skeppsholmen, gevärsrop från Södermalmstorg, arbetshjonens klapprande med träskorna på Glasbruksgatan, allt gjorde ett intryck av liv och rörlighet, som tycktes väcka den unge herrens energi, ty nu hade hans ansikte antagit ett uttryck av trots och levnadslust och beslutsamhet, och då han lutade sig över barriären och såg ner på staden under sina fötter, var det som om han betraktade en fiende; hans näsborrar vidgades, hans ögon flammade och han lyfte sin knutna hand, som om han velat utmana den stackars staden eller hota den. Nu ringde det sju i Katrina, och Maria sekunderade med sin mjältsjuka diskant, och Storkyrkan och Tyskan fyllde i med sina basar, och hela rymden dallrade snart av ljudet från alla stadens sjuklockor; men när de tystnat, den ena efter den andra, hördes ännu långt i fjärran den sista sjunga sin fridfulla aftonsång; den hade en högre ton, en renare klang
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Mary Shelley
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Louisa May Alcott
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Inferno
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
James Joyce
Ulysses
Marcel Proust
Within a Budding Grove
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
Jane Austen
Emma
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
Victoria Benedictsson
Modern
Hjalmar Söderberg
Förvillelser
Ernest Hemingway
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
– Virginia Woolf
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– Gustave Flaubert
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