Strindberg: A Life (about August Strindberg)
Sue Prideaux
The author looks at the life of the playwright best known for the work Miss Julie, paying special attention to how real life inspired the ideas, premises and characters of his plays and other literary works.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9780300198065
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Playwright's lifeLiterary influencesSwedish literature
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2012)
Other awarded books from Sue Prideaux
- Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
- I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
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