# Historical Miniatures

Author: Strindberg, August, 1849-1912; Field, Claud, 1863-1941 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7955

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Historical+Miniatures+Strindberg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“A very interesting book, as might be expected, for it is Strindberg’s. And I am bold enough to say a book which should and must be successful with the public. The writer is not here concerned with Sweden, nor with Natural History. A philosopher and poet here describes the visions which a study of the history of mankind has called up before his inner eye. Julian the Apostate and Peter the Hermit appear on the stage, together with Attila and Luther, Alcibiades and Eginhard. We see the empires of the Pharaohs and the Czars, the Athens of Socrates and the ‘Merry England’ of Henry VIII. There are twenty brief episodes, and each of them is alive. So powerful is the writer’s faculty of vision,...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-miniatures-7955/chapters/20/index.md)