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Fru Ines - Skram, Amalie, and Hanson, Katherine (Translated by), and Messick, Judith (Translated by)
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Fru Ines, wife of the Swedish consul, is a member of the wealthy elite; but her privileged position has become a prison, and her attempt to break out by taking a young lover does not bring the sexual fulfilment she craves. Instead she finds herself trapped in a spiral of degradation which brings her down to the level of the most destitute. Fru Ines (1891) is unusual among Amalie Skram's novels in being set in late nineteenth-century Constantinople. It was a city she knew well, having stayed there on her travels with her ...

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Fru Ines 2014, Norvik Press

ISBN-13: 9781909408050

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