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Stockholm : Bonniers, 1914
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Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML: 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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Story of Borg who visits the Stockhom archipelago to save the fishing industry. He is rejected by the inhabitants and deteriorates in a state of isolation. Original publication was 1890 and reflects the leading ideas of the time.
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1890 (original Swedish)
1984 (English: Sandbach)