The young Swedish author Victoria Benedictsson published her first novel Pengar (Money) in 1885, under the pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren. The novel is set in rural southern Sweden where the author lived, and follows the fortunes of Selma Berg, a girl whose fate has much in common with that of Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora. The gifted young Selma is forced to give up her dreams of going to art school when her uncle persuades her to marry, at the age of sixteen, a rich older squire. Profoundly shocked by her wedding night and by the mercenary nature of the marriage transaction, she finds herself...
The young Swedish author Victoria Benedictsson published her first novel Pengar (Money) in 1885, under the pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren. The novel is set i...
An economical and haunting tale, published in book form in 1904 and set in the sixteenth century on the snowbound west coast of Sweden, Lord Arne's Silver is a classic from the pen of an author consummately skilled in the deployment of narrative power and ambivalence. A story of robbery and murder, retribution, love, and betrayal, plays out against the backdrop of the stalwart fishing community of the archipelago. Young Elsalill, sole survivor of the mass killing in the home of rich cleric Lord Arne, becomes a pawn in dangerous games both earthly and supernatural.
An economical and haunting tale, published in book form in 1904 and set in the sixteenth century on the snowbound west coast of Sweden, Lord Arne's Si...
The property of MArbacka in VArmland was where Selma LagerlOf grew up, immersed in a tradition of storytelling. Financial difficulties led to the loss of the house, but LagerlOf was later able to buy it back, rebuild and make it the centre of her world. The book MArbacka, the first part of a trilogy written in 1922-32, can be read as many different things: memoir, fictionalised autobiography, even part of LagerlOf's myth-making about her own successful career as an author. It is part social and family history, part mischievous satire in the guise of innocent, first-person child...
The property of MArbacka in VArmland was where Selma LagerlOf grew up, immersed in a tradition of storytelling. Financial difficulties led to the l...
