title: Persian Miniatures: From Ancient Manuscripts
author: Basil Gray
description: Persian Miniatures: From Ancient Manuscripts
  Publication date: 1962
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  # Historical Miniatures
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### August Strindberg
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  THE EGYPTIAN BONDAGE
  
  
  THE HEMICYCLE OF ATHENS
  
  
  ALCIBIADES
  
  
  SOCRATES
  
  
  FLACCUS AND MARO
  
  
  LEONTOPOLIS
  
  
  THE LAMB
  
  
  THE WILD BEAST
  
  
  ATTILA
  
  
  THE SERVANT OF SERVANTS
  
  
  ISHMAEL
  
  
  EGINHARD TO EMMA
  
  
  THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
  
  
  PETER THE HERMIT
  
  
  LAOCOON
  
  
  THE INSTRUMENT
  
  
  OLD MERRY ENGLAND
  
  
  THE WHITE MOUNTAIN
  
  
  THE GREAT CZAR
  
  
  THE SEVEN GOOD YEARS
  
  
  DAYS OF JUDGMENT
  
  
  STRINDBERG'S DEATH-BED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  HISTORICAL MINIATURES
  
  
  by
  
  
  AUGUST STRINDBERG (Translated by CLAUD FIELD, M.A.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Maximilian Harden, the well-known critic, writes in the _Zukunft_
  
  
  (7th September 1907) of the _Historical Miniatures_ :
  
  
    
  “A very interesting book, a