Valda Berättelser

Valda Berättelser - With Notes and Vocabulary

Selma Lagerlf was born at the Mrbacka homestead in Vermland, Sweden, Nov. 20, 1858. Although in poor health as a child, she early devoted herself to study, meanwhile gathering from the picturesque native environment a rich fund of poetic impressions afterwards freely utilized in her literary production. After due preparation she taught for ten years (1885-95) in the Elementary School for Girls in the city of Landskrona. Her first published work, Gsta Berlings saga (1891), The Story of Gsta Berling, is a powerful and magnificent re-creation of episodes from real life in Vermland about 1820. This romance won for her instant recognition at home and soon bore her name and fame to other lands. Within a few years it was translated into no less than twelve languages. Gsta Berling was followed by a succession of notable works of which a mere record is here given: Osynliga lnkar (1894), Invisible Links, a collection of short stories; Antikrists mirakler (1897), The Miracles of Antichrist, depicting in romantic form two contending forces in Sicilian life, hereditary faith in a grapple with the modern labor movement; Drottningar i Kungahlla (1899), another collection of short stories; En herrgrdssgen, From a Swedish Homestead, a charming story, published separately the same year; the great novel Jerusalem (1901 and 1902), Jerusalem (I) and The Holy City (II), a work characterized by H. Hesse, a German writer and critic, as the greatest and best contribution to modern Swedish romantic prose, a book on Swedens soul, multiplex, yet single, benign, yet powerful, at once realistic and visionary,in no other recent work is the soul of a nation so truly expressed; Kristuslegender, Christ[6] Legends, and Herr Arnes pengar (1904); a remarkable reader for the public schools, entitled, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa (1906 and 1907), The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, and, Further Adventures of Nils; En saga om en saga och andra sagor (1908), including Tsen frn Stormyrtorpet, The Girl from the Marsh Croft, probably the finest writing done by Selma Lagerlfs pen; Liljecronas hem (1911), Liljecronas Home; Krkarlen (1912), Kejsarn af Portugallien (1914), The Emperor of Portugallia; Troll och mnniskor (1915); Bannlyst (1918), The Outcast, and a second collection entitled, Troll och mnniskor, published in 1921. The English title is added, where known, to indicate what works of Selma Lagerlf are available in translation. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 51440
Author: Lagerlöf, Selma
Release Date: Mar 13, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: Swedish

Contributors

Editor: Mauritzson, Jules, 1868-1930