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Title details for On the Seaboard by August Strindberg - Available

On the Seaboard

by August Strindberg
Elizabeth Clarke Westergren
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What starts out as an account of a humdrum administrative assignment is elevated to an existential examination of the meaning of life in Swedish author August Strindberg's novel On the Seaboard. A bureaucrat is sent to a remote island outpost with the task of educating the local fishermen about advances in fishing techniques, but he is unprepared for the pushback he receives from the staunchly traditional community.

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Publisher: Duke Classics

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 18, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781620137857
  • Release date: June 18, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781620137857
  • File size: 349 KB
  • Release date: June 18, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781620137857
  • File size: 346 KB
  • Release date: June 18, 2014

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Kindle Book
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EPUB ebook
Open EPUB ebook

subjects

Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

What starts out as an account of a humdrum administrative assignment is elevated to an existential examination of the meaning of life in Swedish author August Strindberg's novel On the Seaboard. A bureaucrat is sent to a remote island outpost with the task of educating the local fishermen about advances in fishing techniques, but he is unprepared for the pushback he receives from the staunchly traditional community.

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Classic Literature Fiction