{"product_id":"9780385722674","title":"Doctor Glas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA masterpiece of enduring power, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Glas \u003c\/i\u003econfronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eEugénie Grandet\u003c\/i\u003e and Henry James's \u003ci\u003eWashington Square,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Nothern European literature. The retrieval of \u003ci\u003eDoctor Glas\u003c\/i\u003e in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers.\" —Susan Sontag\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010978529520,"sku":"9780385722674","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385722674_p0.jpg?v=1763695038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385722674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}