Haabløse Slægter

Summary

William Høg is the last son of an old noble family worn down by madness and decline. Sensitive and ambitious, he tries to escape what he has inherited through an affair with an older woman and dreams of a career on the stage, but the weight of his family's past keeps pulling him back. Herman Bang's first novel, a scandal in its day, opens with a prologue on the family's history and follows William from boyhood into early manhood. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Opus 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (16)

1. 1. Prolog
2. 2. Kapitel 2
3. 3. Kapitel 3
4. 4. Kapitel 4
5. 5. Kapitel 5
6. 6. Kapitel 6
7. 7. Kapitel 7
8. 8. Kapitel 8
9. 9. Kapitel 9
10. 10. Kapitel 10
11. 11. Kapitel 11
12. 12. Kapitel 12
13. 13. Kapitel 13
14. 14. Kapitel 14
15. 15. Kapitel 15
16. 16. Kapitel 16