| The Serious Game Contributor(s): Söderberg, Hjalmar (Author), Claeson, Eva (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0714530611 ISBN-13: 9780714530611 Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2001 Annotation: Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results. Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. "The Serious Game" is Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Literary Criticism | European - Scandinavian |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001043383 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.16" W x 7.8" (0.43 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results. Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. The Serious Game is Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story. |
