Selma Lagerlof

• May-2025
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“En Herregaardshistorie” by Selma Lagerlöf is a classic of Danish literature. Set in the late 19th century, this compelling narrative explores themes of love, loss, and redemption within a historical context. La...

• Mar-2021
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"Herr Arne's Hoard" is a 1904 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. Its original Swedish title is "Herr Arnes penningar," which means "Sir Arne's money". Set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenari...

• Jul-2020
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At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) there lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the goodhearted, widowed, Pastor Lyselius and his beautiful daughter. Here one day, arrives his new wife, who t...

• Jan-2018
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In the short Easter story "Saint Veronica's Kerchief", an elderly woman brings the healing love of Christ to a dying Emperor. A beautiful narrative of the traditional Christian story by world-famed author Selma Lagerlöf presented in a refined digita...

• Dec-2017
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The Story of Gösta Berling written by Swedish author and teacher Selma Lagerlöf. This book is one of many works by her. Published in 1898. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form...

• Jun-2016
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• Jul-2015
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BONUS: Ten new pages about Selma Lagerlöf and Sweden added. Three landscape photos included. Selma Lagerlöf is best known in America and worldwide for her masterpiece children's' stories: NILS: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and The Further Adven...

• May-2015
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A curse rests on the Lowenskold family, as narrated in The Lowenskold Ring. Charlotte Lowenskold is the tale of the following generations, a story of psychological insight and social commentary, and of the complexities of a mother-son relationship. C...

• Mar-2015
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This book was designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, but quickly won international fame and popularity. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander's back and is then carried the length of the country, learning both ...

• Oct-2014
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This picture book edition of Selma Lagerlof's classic tale tells of a shepherd whose heart and life are forever changed when he meets a strange man who says: "Dear friends, help me! My wife has just given birth to a child, and I must make a fire to w...

• Jan-2014
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The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Swedish author Selma Lagerloef rejected the gritty realism that was emerging as a literary trend in the early twentieth century and instead infused her stories with the wonder and enchantment of t...

• Apr-2013
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The Wonderful Journey of Nils is so well known in Swedish culture that a picture of Nils Holgersson, on the back of a goose flying over the plains of Scania, is printed on the reverse side of the Swedish 20 krona banknote. The background for publicat...

• Apr-2013
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The Wonderful Journey of Nils is so well known in Swedish culture that a picture of Nils Holgersson, on the back of a goose flying over the plains of Scania, is printed on the reverse side of the Swedish 20 krona banknote. The background for publicat...

• Jul-2011
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An economical and haunting tale, published in book form in 1904 and set in the sixteenth century on the snowbound west coast of Sweden, Lord Arne's Silver is a classic from the pen of an author consummately skilled in the deployment of narrative powe...

• Jul-2011
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The Lowenskold Ring is the first volume of a trilogy originally published between 1925 and 1928. In addition to being a disturbing saga of revenge from beyond the grave, it is a tale of courageous, persistent women, with interesting narrative twists ...

• Jul-2011
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Written in 1912 Selma Lagerlofs The Phantom Carriage is a powerful combination of ghost story and social realism partly played out among the slums and partly in the transitional sphere between life and death The vengeful and alcoholic David Holm is l...

• Sep-2009
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The debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, "The Saga of Gösta Berling" was first published in 1891. It is the story of its titular character Gösta Berling, a deposed minister. Gösta Berling becomes one of the pensioners in the mano...

• Jun-2008
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• Mar-2008
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Inspired by a visit to a religious commune in the U.S., the novel Jerusalem is regarded by many as the most accomplished work in Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlof's oeuvre. A stirring examination of the steep toll of religious extremism, it f...

• Jul-2005
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Selma Lagerlof won the Nobel Prize in 1909, and was the first woman to do so, and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages. Her novels usually describ...

• Jun-2004
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The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Selma Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891 novel. Inspsired by the legends, superstitions, and fairy tales of Lagerlöf's native Värmland region, Gösta Berling's Sa...

• Mar-2004
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Lagerlof's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first successful work, Gosta Berling. How The Story of Gösta Berling grew and the years required to perfect it, is told in the author's unique literary autobiography, The Story of a Story,...

• Feb-2004
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When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow! I hardly know if I have had a greater since then. It was then that my grandmother died. Up to that time, she used to sit every day on the corner sofa in her room, and tell stories. I remember gr...

• Oct-2003
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Set in northwest Sweden in the 16th century, Selma Lagerlof's The Treasure is an intricately plotted and very compelling tale of murder, long-delayed justice, and revenge. One night, a group of rowdy escaped prisoners attacks and plunders a clerg...

• Apr-2003
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Selma Lagerlöf's classic storytelling draws vividly on the colorful history and landscape of the Holy Land, from the time of Jesus to the Crusades. From the surly shepherd of Bethlehem to the war-hardened soldier at Herod's feast; from the unhappy s...

• Aug-1992
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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for her children's story The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906-07) she was awarded the Nobel Prize...

• Sep-1991
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Younger readers who enjoy fantasy tales like the Harry Potter series will love Selma Lagerloef's timeless classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. One day while his parents are out, Nils encounters a magical being who shrinks him to a fraction of h...

"The Emperor of Portugallia" by Selma Lagerlof was first published in 1914 in Sweden and in 1916 in English. The story is set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870 and centers on Jan of Ruffluck Croft. He loves his daughter more than anything, but when th...

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. Invisible Links (Osynliga länkar) is a collection of sh...

The Miracles of Antichrist relies heavily on the legends and folk tales of Sicily. The descriptions, rich in the warm colors of the South, convey Lagerlöf's understanding of the hot blooded Sicilians with the same insight and sympathy which she evok...