BONUS: Ten new pages about Selma Lagerlof and Sweden added. Three landscape photos included. Selma Lagerlof is best known in America and worldwide for her masterpiece children's' stories: NILS: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and The Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson. Originally commissioned by the Swedish National Teachers' Society to teach introductory geography to young Swedish schoolchildren, these adventures, first published in 1906-1907, take flight when Nils, a Swedish imp, is magically reduced to elfin size, gets astride a gander who joins a flock of wild geese that fly a route...

It took place in the court room of a rural district. At the head of the Judges' table sits an old Judge-a tall and massively built man, with a broad, rough-hewn visage. For several hours he has been engaged in deciding one case after another, and finally something like disgust and melancholy has taken hold of him. It is difficult to know if it is the heat and closeness of the court room that are torturing him or if he has become low-spirited from handling all these petty wrangles, which seem to spring from no other cause than to bear witness to people's quarrel-mania, uncharitableness, and...

As yet the only woman winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the prize awarded to Kipling, Maeterlinck, and Hauptmann, is the Swedish author of this book, "Jerusalem." The Swedish Academy, in recognizing Miss Selma Lagerlof, declared that they did so "for reason of the noble idealism, the wealth of imagination, the soulful quality of style, which characterize her works." Five years later, in 1914, that august body elected Doctor Lagerlof into their fellowship, and she is thus the only woman among those eighteen "immortals.""

Invisible Links is a collection of short stories with an underlying theme about the links that influence and guide people's actions and lives. Invisible Links is a good introduction to the writings of Selma Lagerloef. Selma Lagerlof was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, and was awarded a Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909."

Parue pour les fetes de Noel de 1891, cette oeuvre hybride qui tient a la fois du recueil de contes, de la poesie et du roman est un texte fascinant pour les Suedois qui ont reconnu dans cette legende les racines profondes des Vikings. Les histoires s'enchainent, dans le genre fantastique, avec des loups, des revenants, des morts inexpliquees... Si l'ensemble reste inegal, on le decouvrira quand meme avec bonheur et indulgence, car il s'agit du tout premier roman de la grande Selma Lagerlof."