num_pages: 208
description: Axel Borg, a man in his thirties, has been appointed superintendent of fisheries on one of the small islands in the Stockholm Archipelago. Like Strindberg at that age, he is a prophet without honor, his achievements having won him distinction only in foreign countries. On the island he has to combat pig-headedness and ignorance, and he is settling down with much self-pity to a long grind, when that creature whom he classifies as only a short remove from the child comes to cause further disturbance - a woman. For a time the uninitiated will suspect that a pretty love story is in the make, but others will observe the scientific analysis which Borg applies to even his happiest moments.
language: English
title: By the Open Sea
titlecomplete: By the Open Sea
characters: Miss Mary, Fish Commissioner Borg
genres: Fiction, Nature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Sweden, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 402
places: Sweden
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Penguin Classics