That'll Do

A new translation into modern English of Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's bold Swedish classic. On a steamboat from Stockholm, Sergeant Albert meets Sarah Widebeck, a young glazier's daughter travelling home to Lidköping. Their journey across nineteenth-century Sweden becomes an argument about love, work, marriage, money, freedom, and the right to shape one's own life. First published in 1839, Det går an shocked its age by imagining intimacy without economic dependence and affection without possession. Its questions remain startlingly alive: how can two people love one another without destroying one another's liberty, livelihood, and self-respect?