One of those marvellous books that appears as fresh and vivid now as on the day it was published. It is a volcano, shaking, about to erupt." The New York Times Book Review "Elegant, vigorous, and tightly-knit. Söderberg a marvellous writer." The New Yorker " not only sketches the light and shadows of its time, but maps territory still being explored by the writers of today. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers." -Susan Sontag, "Splendid. It occurs on the cusp of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, but it opens doors the novel has been opening ever since." Margaret Atwood, from the Introduction "Imagine the classic nineteenth century drama featuring a tyrannical older man, his hapless daughter or young wife, and her caddish suitor, as in Balzac's Eugenie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman's-and you begin to have an idea of the force and candor of this searing masterwork of Northern European literature.
Sderberg a marvellous writer." The New Yorker " not only sketches the light and shadows of its time, but maps territory still being explored by the writers of today.
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