by Hjalmar Soderberg

Doctor Glas, a lonely, introspective physician, confronts a difficult and chilling moral dilemma after the beautiful wife of the local minister, an odious man for whom Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility, complains to him of her husband's oppressive sexual attentions, and Doctor Glas suddenly finds himself contemplating murder. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.