Included in this volume of Selma Lagerlof's short fiction are "The Spirit of Fasting and Petter Nord," "The Legend of the Bird's Nest," "The King's Grave," "The Outlaws," "The Legend of Reor," "Valdemar Atterdag," "Mamsell Fredrika," "The Romance of a Fisherman's Wife," "His Mother's Portrait," "A Fallen King," "A Christmas Guest," "Uncle Reuben," "Downie," and "Among the Climbing Roses."
Included in this volume of Selma Lagerlof's short fiction are "The Spirit of Fasting and Petter Nord," "The Legend of the Bird's Nest," "The King's Gr...
THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST was written following a trip of Selma Lagerlof's to Sicily. While there, she heard -- and was inspired by -- a Sicilian legend: "When Antichrist comes, he shall seem as Christ. There shall be great want, and Antichrist shall go from land to land and give bread to the poor. And he shall find many followers." Selma Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. She was considered one of Sweden's most beloved authors; the Swedish Academy declared that their recognition of her was "for reason of the noble...
THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST was written following a trip of Selma Lagerlof's to Sicily. While there, she heard -- and was inspired by -- a Sicilian leg...
Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1909. She was considered one of Sweden's most beloved authors; the Swedish Academy declared that their recognition of her was -for reason of the noble idealism, the wealth of imagination, the soulful quality of style, which characterize her works.-
Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1909. She was considered one of Sweden's...
