August Strindberg's Married Life (also published as Getting Married) experimented with the classic novel before the world was ready for experimental writing. One week after it first published in 1884, Strindberg was prosecuted for blasphemy against God. Married Life comprises of a number of short stories describing marriage of every possibility and their corresponding horrors. If this were a self-help book it'd advise everyone run from commitment as quickly as possible and never stray down the life sentence commonly known as married life.