Price: £750
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1905
Stock Number: 59724
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, a couple of light pencil marks, pp. [1v], 253, [2], foolscap 8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, the backstrip lettered in gilt with three raised bands, extremities a little rubbed, marbling to edges with that to fore-and tail edges a little faint, patterned endpapers, good
Publication Details: Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1905
Notes: A scarce first edition of the Swedish author's most important work, written in the form of a diary recording the eponymous physician's descent into despair - and within the larger themes of sex and death, dealing with abortion, euthanasia, adultery and suicide (all apt to cause the sort of scandal that the book provoked). The nature of the journal form allows for a subtle handling of the narrator's ennui and the book's complex moral issues, and the novel is both very much of its time in terms of the literary and philosophical influences on the narrative's presentation as well as predicting se...more
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