The Phantom Carriage
Edit, the Little Sister of the Poor, is dying precisely on New Year's Eve, when the death carriage also approaches the agonizing David Holm, a drunken, aggressive man with bad habits. The contrast between...
LAGERLOF, Selma
The Saga of Gösta Berling
It explains the life of a primitive Swedish community in the early 19th century around the Värmland region, where a young pastor of a rural parish lives, who has been removed from his duties due to drinking...
Liliecrona's Home
Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel Prize 1909) offers an adaptation of the Snow White story, where the elements change as it is set in a rectory of the Church of Sweden, but the characters maintain their roles. With...
The Emperor of Portugallia
This book includes a rich tapestry of narratives spanning the gamut of human emotion and experience, set against a backdrop that traverses both humble homesteads and grand imperial settings. Through its...
Mårbacka
Mårbacka is a classic autobiographical novel by the renowned Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. The book vividly depicts Lagerlöf's childhood in the rural manor of Mårbacka in Värmland, Sweden. Through a series...
Charlotte Löwensköld
Nearly a hundred years after the events of The Löwensköld Ring, the curse still seems to hang over the descendants of this family. In the village of Korskyrka, Värmland, Charlotte Löwensköld and Karl Artur...
Girl from the Marsh Croft and Other Stories
This collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winning writer Selma Lagerlöf offers fascinating facets of life from turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Many of the tales are almost fable-like in their...
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson
Never before had Nils travelled around at such good speed, and he had always liked riding fast and wild ... Nor had he thought what it might be like to travel so high above the ground. But it was like...