First Swedish edition: a Gothic tale, set in Skane thirty years after the Swedes took the province from the Danes in 1658. Tschandala (the word is taken from Nietzsche and designates the lowest caste in India) was first published in Danish translation in 1889.

OCLC, RLIN, and NUC record copies at San Francisco Public Library, Harvard, Princeton, Texas and Boston Public Library (September 2002).

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