By the Open Sea

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.

• Author
• August Strindberg, Mary Sandbach

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 208

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-044488-9

• EAN
• 9780140444889

• Characters
• Fish Commissioner Borg, Miss Mary

• Settings
• Sweden

• Genres
• classics, fiction, sweden, novels, literature

• Release date
• 1987