-Say, Jan, have you never cared so much for somebody that your heart has been set athrobbing because of her?- asked the midwife. Jan could not deny that it. The novel was a success with critics and readers, newspaper reviewers said the novel was at the same level as LagerlOf's earlier novels GOsta Berling's Saga and the first part of Jerusalem.
-Say, Jan, have you never cared so much for somebody that your heart has been set athrobbing because of her?- asked the midwife. Jan could not deny...
-Jerusalem begins with the history of a wealthy and powerful farmer family, the Ingmarssons of Ingmar Farm, and develops to include the whole parish life with its varied farmer types, its pastor, schoolmaster, shopkeeper, and innkeeper. The romance portrays the religious revival introduced by a practical mystic from Chicago which leads many families to sell their ancestral homesteads and--in the last chapter of this volume--to emigrate in a body to the Holy Land.- -- Henry Goddard Leach
-Jerusalem begins with the history of a wealthy and powerful farmer family, the Ingmarssons of Ingmar Farm, and develops to include the whole paris...
The Emperor of Portugallia is called the "Swedish King Lear" by Lagerlof. It was a success with critics and readers, considered to be at the same level as Lagerlof's earlier novels Gosta Berling's Saga and the first part of Jerusalem. Taking place in 1860 or 1870 in Lagerlof's native Varmland, it tell the story about the tenant farmer Jan in Skrolycka and his daughter Glory Goldie Sunnycastle. More than anything else he loves his daughter, but after she moves to Stockholm at age 17 and becomes wealthy and well-known, she stops sending letters home. The father sinks into a dream world where he...
The Emperor of Portugallia is called the "Swedish King Lear" by Lagerlof. It was a success with critics and readers, considered to be at the same leve...
The story of a selfish young farm lad, who after an encounter with an elf, is flung into an adventure that will change him forever, but is it for the better?
The story of a selfish young farm lad, who after an encounter with an elf, is flung into an adventure that will change him forever, but is it for the ...
Readers of Miss Lagerlof will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism. This writer's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first successful work, "Gosta Berling." How "The Story of Gosta Berling" grew, and the years required to perfect it, is told in the author's unique literary autobiography, "The Story of a Story," which is embodied in the present volume. In "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" Miss Lagerlof has courageously chosen a girl...
Readers of Miss Lagerlof will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former worl...
