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Selma Lagerlöf
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Selma Lagerlof
A Short Biography Of The First Woman Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literature.
Selma Lagerlöf
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Invisible Links
Step into Scandinavia with this charming collection of tales from acclaimed Swedish author Selma Lagerlof. In terms of subject matter, the tales range from realistic portraits of rural family life to fanciful forays with fairies and elves, but Lagerlof's lyrical language adds a touch of magic to the entire collection.
Mårbacka
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Selma Lagerlöf
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7 best short stories by Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf won the Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". During her acceptance speech, she remained humble and told a fantastic story of her father, as she visited him in heaven. In the story, she asks her father for help with the debt she owes and her father explains the debt is from all the people who supported her throughout her career. In 1904, the Academy had awarded her its great gold medal, and in 1914, she also became a member of the academy. For both the academy membership and her Nobel literature prize, she was the first woman to be so honored. In 1991, she became the first woman to be depicted on a Swedish banknote, when the first 20-kronor note was released. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories: - The Holy Night - The Emperor's Vision - The Wise Men's Well - Bethlehem's Children - The Flight Into Egypt - In Nazareth - In The Temple
The Treasure
The Treasure is set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenaries who escape from prison; they go on to murder a family to steal a treasure chest, after which one of them falls in love with the family's sole survivor.
Selma Lagerlöf
Excerpt from Selma Lagerlöf: The Woman, Her Work, Her Message, Including Liberal Quotation From Dr. Lagerlöf's Own Autobiographical Writings and From Some of Her Critics This little study of the life and work of Selma Lagerlöf is not so much an appreciation or a critique perhaps as it is an attempt to catch, and present to the American reader, some of the background from which the author draws her idealism and her illusive literary qualities. In so doing the author and editor has gone direct to Dr. Lagerlöf's own autobiographical writings so far as possible - but even these are illusive and unsatisfactory without some of the plain facts which we in America would like to know of her. Ther...
