[Interim production #2] Hjalmar Söderberg - Martin Birck’s Youth

[Robin Whittleton]

I saw that PG had recently released the Hjalmar Söderberg novella Martin Birck’s Youth, so I was planning to add it to the Short Fiction compilation I did. But it turns out to be (without the preface) 41.6K words, so it just works its way up to being a standalone publication.

Repo: https://github.com/robinwhittleton/hjalmar-soderberg_martin-bircks-youth_charles-wharton-stork

PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78363

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/martinbircksyout0000sode

The structure is a little odd: despite it being just 41k words it’s split into three parts and 31 chapters overall. I’ll start proofing shortly. No idea about cover art yet.

-Robin

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Lukas will manage with Weijia reviewing.

On 4/7/26 4:04 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> I saw that PG had recently released the Hjalmar Söderberg novella /
> Martin Birck’s Youth/ <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78363>, so I was
> planning to add it to the /Short Fiction/ compilation I did. But it

> turns out to be (without the preface) 41.6K words, so it just works its
> way up to being a standalone publication.
>
> Repo: https://github.com/robinwhittleton/hjalmar-soderberg_martin-

> bircks-youth_charles-wharton-stork <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/
> hjalmar-soderberg_martin-bircks-youth_charles-wharton-stork>
> PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78363 <https://www.gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/78363>
> Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/martinbircksyout0000sode

> <https://archive.org/details/martinbircksyout0000sode>
>
> The structure is a little odd: despite it being just 41k words it’s
> split into three parts and 31 chapters overall. I’ll start proofing
> shortly. No idea about cover art yet.
>
> -Robin
>

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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.

[Robin Whittleton]

I’ve added “The Kiss” by Munch to the DB and claimed it for this production. Will push when someone approves: https://standardebooks.org/artworks/edvard-munch/the-kiss

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