The Son of a Servant - Classic Reprint Author:August Strindberg The Son of a Servant I FEAR AND HUNGER IN the third story of a large house near the Clara Church in Stockholm, the son of the shipping agent and the servant-maid awoke to self-consciousness. The child's first impressions were, as he remembered afterwards, fear and hunger. He feared the darkness and blows, he feared to fall, to knock himself agai... more »nst something, or to go in the streets. He feared the fists of his brothers, the roughness of the servant-girl, the scolding of his grandmother, the rod of his mother, and his father's cane. He was afraid of the general's manservant, who lived on the ground-floor, with his skull-cap and large hedge-scissors; he feared the landlord's deputy, when he played in the courtyard with the dust-bin; he feared the landlord, who was I
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I FEAR AND HUNGER I; II BREAKING-IN 36; III A'VA Y FROM HOME 51; IV INTERCOURSE 'WITH THE LOWER CLASSES 68; V CONTACT WITH THE UPPER CLASSES 99; VI THE SCHOOL OF THE CROSS 124; VII FIRST LOVE 156; VIII THE SPRING THA W 188; IX WITH STRANGERS 223; X CHARACTER AND DESTINY 248
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