# Martin Birck's youth

Author: Söderberg, Hjalmar, 1869-1941; Nadejen, Theodore, 1889-1974 [Illustrator]; Stork, Charles Wharton, 1881-1971 [Translator]

Genre: Bildungsromans

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78363

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Martin+Birck%27s+youth+S%C3%B6derberg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_It is a sad thought that everyone cannot enjoy Söderberg, that this master of delicate and incisive realism, this prince of humorists, is--for Anglo-Saxons, at least--an acquired taste. But it is well to face at the outset the fact that Söderberg is a European Continental, an Anatole France of Sweden. To those who believe that a man is unvirile or at least anæmic if he refuses to believe in human perfectibility this attitude toward life will seem barren and depressing, one to encourage discouragement. How much pleasanter to feel with Pippa, not only at 7_ +A.M.+ _on a May morning, but at all hours and seasons, that «all’s right with the world»! To insinuate the contrary is to give sancti...

## Chapters

- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/martin-birck-s-youth-78363/chapters/10/index.md)