num_pages: 60
description: Stark, 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. A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.
language: English
title: Doktor Glas
titlecomplete: Doktor Glas
characters: Gregorius, Tyko Gabriel Glas, Helga Gregorius
genres: Fiction, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Crime, Sweden, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 12218
places: Stockholm
publisher: University of Hull