item: #1 of 11 id: 14347 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays by August Strindberg, Second series date: None words: 71512 flesch: 90 summary: (During this entire scene, the pianist in the next room has been practicing the Sonata in D-minor, sometimes pianissimo, sometimes wildly fortissimo; now and then he has kept silent for a little while, and at other times nothing has been heard but a part of the finale: bars 96 to 107.) X. Come on! MR. keywords: abbé; adolph; catherine; child; christine; course; day; eyes; good; gustav; hand; henriette; jean; jeanne; julia; kind; left; life; like; look; love; man; maurice; miss; mme; moment; new; people; place; play; reason; right; strindberg; table; talk; tekla; time; way; woman; yes cache: 14347.txt plain text: 14347.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 36111 author: Heller, Otto title: Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy date: None words: 43052 flesch: 57 summary: The main thesis of his mystical belief is that there are divine forces dormant in human nature; how to arouse and release them, constitutes the paramount problem of human life. _L'Oiseau Bleu_ (The Blue Bird), above all other works, illustrates the fact that human lives suffer not so much for the lack of happiness as for the want of being clearly conscious of the happiness they possess. keywords: age; art; author; book; case; character; day; death; existence; fact; fate; general; good; happiness; human; intellectual; life; living; love; maeterlinck; man; means; men; mind; moral; nature; new; nietzsche; order; people; philosophy; plays; power; purpose; question; reason; right; self; sense; society; soul; story; strindberg; theory; things; thought; time; tolstoy; view; war; way; woman; work; world; zarathustra cache: 36111.txt plain text: 36111.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 44106 author: Strindberg, August title: The Confession of a Fool date: None words: 94700 flesch: 78 summary: She had grown fond of me, and with the prevision frequently met with in old women, suspected that something was going on behind the scenes. And now I, too, stood in the sunlight, gazing at a northern landscape made up of firs and birch trees, green fields and red cattle, little brown cottages with old women on the thresholds, knitting socks for father, who was toiling far down in the canton of Tessin; my eyes rested on potato fields and lavender bushes, dahlias and marigolds. keywords: baron; baroness; bed; brain; children; day; days; death; dinner; dog; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feet; fire; friend; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; honour; house; husband; left; let; letter; life; look; love; marie; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; place; play; poor; room; rose; round; small; soul; stage; sun; table; thought; time; trees; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 44106.txt plain text: 44106.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 44233 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series date: None words: 70138 flesch: 96 summary: After a while_ LOUISE _comes out by way of the square_. The silence of_ GERDA _is ambiguous_. keywords: amelia; anderson; axel; biskra; child; children; consul; course; duke; enters; eric; gerda; good; guimard; hand; house; judge; lady; left; lindgren; look; louise; love; man; master; mrs; neighbour; old; place; play; prince; right; rudolph; starck; stepmother; stranger; swanwhite; table; tell; thure; thyra; time; way; wife; years cache: 44233.txt plain text: 44233.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 44302 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series date: None words: 68926 flesch: 93 summary: As_ KERSTI _hears him a happy look comes into her face, and she seems to swell with pride and new courage_. When_ KERSTI _comes out of the hut again, she has on a short Dalecarlian jacket and is carrying a bag and the alpenhorn. keywords: agda; anders; brita; child; church; colonel; crown; day; door; enters; eric; father; god; good; hand; hummel; husband; israel; jacob; jorghen; kersti; king; lady; law; left; life; look; man; mats; midwife; mons; mother; olavus; people; queen; right; room; rose; sheriff; student; time; water; way; white; wife; yes cache: 44302.txt plain text: 44302.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 45375 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays by August Strindberg, First Series date: None words: 68720 flesch: 93 summary: ALICE _sits in the easy-chair on the right, doing nothing at all. ALICE _remains silent_. keywords: alice; allan; background; baroness; believe; captain; case; child; children; come; course; curt; daughter; day; door; enters; father; good; hand; judge; judith; kind; lawyer; leave; left; lieutenant; life; look; love; man; master; men; mother; officer; people; play; poet; right; strindberg; thought; time; want; way; wife; years cache: 45375.txt plain text: 45375.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 46107 author: Strindberg, August title: The German Lieutenant, and Other Stories date: None words: 61231 flesch: 83 summary: Sten had drawn back in order to rest after his exertions, and stood with his back against the cold wall regarding the bridegroom in a melancholy way, as the latter with wine-flushed cheeks fluttered uneasily about the bride, who was surrounded by a number of young men. Hear my advice, young man. keywords: bleichroden; boat; brother; children; christian; christmas; church; claus; day; evening; eyes; father; fine; fire; god; good; hand; head; home; house; left; life; look; man; mats; men; mother; order; paul; people; peter; place; priest; red; right; room; round; saw; sten; table; thought; time; town; von; way; white; wife; wine; woman; wood; work cache: 46107.txt plain text: 46107.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 46397 author: Strindberg, August title: Legends: Autobiographical Sketches date: None words: 43866 flesch: 76 summary: Two years ago this temple signified to my worldly mind the honour paid to great men, now I look upon it as dedicated to the martyrs and the sufferings which they have endured; so greatly has my point of view changed. But now no one takes me for an example, and what would be the use if I tried to preach to young men who have not sinned as much as I have? keywords: answer; bed; body; book; conscience; day; days; death; door; evening; evil; fact; friend; garden; god; good; half; hand; life; look; love; man; matter; mind; moment; morning; night; order; people; place; powers; room; rue; sleep; soul; street; swedenborg; table; thou; time; unknown; way; woman; world; years cache: 46397.txt plain text: 46397.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 5053 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors. Pariah. date: None words: 23866 flesch: 91 summary: CREDITORS A TRAGICOMEDY 1889 PERSONS TEKLA ADOLPH, her husband, a painter GUSTAV, her divorced husband, a high-school teacher (who is travelling under an assumed name) SCENE (A parlor in a summer hotel on the sea-shore. Are you sick? (ADOLPH motions her away.) TEKLA. keywords: adolph; course; gustav; husband; left; look; love; man; reason; right; strindberg; table; tekla; time; way; wife cache: 5053.txt plain text: 5053.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 8499 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger date: None words: 43375 flesch: 94 summary: ***** COUNTESS JULIE CHARACTERS COUNTESS JULIE, twenty-five years old JEAN, a valet, thirty KRISTIN, a cook, thirty-five FARM SERVANTS PLAYS: THE FATHER; COUNTESS JULIE; THE OUTLAW; THE STRONGER By August Strindberg Translated by Edith and Warner Oland To M. C. S. and J. H. S., Under whose rooftree these translations were made. CONTENTS. keywords: bertha; captain; child; doctor; door; father; god; good; gunlöd; gunnar; hand; help; home; jean; julie; kristin; laura; life; look; love; man; miss; mother; nurse; nöjd; orm; pastor; strindberg; think; thorfinn; time; valgerd; woman cache: 8499.txt plain text: 8499.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 8500 author: Strindberg, August title: Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter date: None words: 43918 flesch: 96 summary: X. Go ahead. [Taking Elis by the shoulders]. keywords: abel; adèle; axel; benjamin; bertha; christine; durand; eleonora; elis; father; good; hall; heyst; lindkvist; look; man; mother; mrs; right; table; thérèse; time; want; way; willmer; östermark cache: 8500.txt plain text: 8500.txt