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Doctor Glas

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Doctor Glas

First US edition Cover art by Milton Glaser
Author	Hjalmar Söderberg
Original title	Doktor Glas
Translator	Paul Britten Austin
Language	Swedish
Genre	Romance, Thriller
Publisher	Little, Brown (US) Chatto & Windus (UK)
Publication date	1905
Publication place	Sweden
Published in English	1963
Pages	150 pp
ISBN	0-385-72267-2 (recent edition)
OCLC	49925067
Dewey Decimal	839.73/72 21
LC Class	PT9875.S6 D613 2002

Doctor Glas is a 1905 epistolary novelbyHjalmar Söderberg which tells the story of a physician in 19th-century Sweden who deals with moral and love issues.

The novel is about Dr. Tyko Gabriel Glas who is a respected physician in Stockholm. The story is told in the form of a diary and follows Doctor Glas as he struggles with depression. The antagonist is Reverend Gregorius, a morally corrupt clergyman. Gregorius' beautiful young wife confides in Dr. Glas that her sex life is making her miserable and asks for his help. Glas falls in love with her and agrees to help even though she already has another lover. He attempts to intervene, but the Reverend refuses to give up his "marital rights" – she must have sex with him whether she likes it or not. So, in order to make his love happy, he begins to plot her husband's murder. The novel also deals with issues such as abortion, women's rights, suicide, euthanasia, and eugenics. Not surprisingly, the book triggered a violent campaign against its author who was subsequently vilified in Swedish literary circles.

• In 1963, the first English edition of this novel was published. It featured an introduction by author William Sansom.
• In 2002, the latest edition was published by Anchor Books with an introduction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

• In 2004, Swedish author Bengt Ohlsson wrote a book named Gregorius using Söderberg's character Gregorius and expanded upon his background, explaining why he has become so morally corrupt when readers meet him in Doctor Glas.

• 1942: a black-and-white Swedish adaptation directed by Rune Carlsten
• 1968: a Danish adaptation directed by Mai Zetterling

• Complete Review of Doctor Glas
• Complete original Swedish text at Project Runeberg
• Introduction to Doctor Glas by Margaret Atwood
• Annotations of Doctor Glas at NYU

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