The Wedding Dress

Pride comes before a Fall

Joy abounds in the little workers’ home when the three daughters of the family all come home wearing an engagement ring.

The Craftsman's Adventure

A carpenter’s apprentice, Spaan (‘Chip’), has been thrown out by his master for being romantically involved with his daughter, Ernestine.

The City Hyena

Having grown up in poverty, the ambitious Nana is determined to break out of it.

The Manicurist with the Big Heart

The aristocratic Krag refuses to let his daughter marry the bourgeois Carl Vedel, even though the whole family begs him to permit the match.

He, She, and Hamlet

In a boarding house where young girls are kept under strict surveillance, only two persons of the male persuasion are allowed to enter.

Pat and Patachon Invent the Gunpowder

In a boarding house in the city live our friends Pat and Patachon, who have settled down in relative comfort for a modest sum of money.

An Old Man's Fancy

FRAGMENT | Every white hair on old Douglas Morland’s head can be attributed to his nephew, the scandalmonger Basil.

Jealous Jim

Harry Spleed’s jealousy near turns to madness when he finds a torn letter to his wife from a mysterious “Johan”.

In the consul's uniform

Consul Descombes is a married man, but yearns for long nights with female companionship in Paris.

The trumpeter and the author

FRAGMENT | Two good friends – Pengel the writer and Pustervig the trumpeter – live in next-door garrets.