Reworking the figure from Doctor Glas, the novel recasts Pastor Gregorius through his own inner life and moral distortions. It can be read both as historical fiction and as a study of self-deception and desire.

One summer in a pastor’s life reveals a very different face.

Covering European intellectual history from 1492 to 1918, the book moves between broad historical shifts and the thinkers who shaped them. It closes the second volume of a two-part account of nature, society, and human thought.

A single volume that surveys a long arc of intellectual history.

The story follows Elias, a boy on the edge of a small world, with humor and a quiet tension. Childhood exaggerations and fears are handled with a gentle, attentive voice.

Elias’s anxieties gradually come into focus.