The saga of Gösta Berling
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The saga of Gösta Berling
(Penguin classics)
Penguin, 2009
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Gösta Berlings saga
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"This translation first published in Penguin Books 2009 ... Gosta Berlings saga was published in Sweden in 1891"--T.p. verso
"A Penguin book. Literature"--Back cover
"Suggestions for further reading": p. [xxvii]-xxviii
"Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature"--Cover
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One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerloef became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and best-loved novel, and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo to stardom. Set in 1820s Sweden, it tells the story of a defrocked minister named Goesta Berling. After his appetite for alcohol and previous indiscretions end his career, Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate owned by Margareta Celsing, the "Majoress," that also houses and assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars. Berling's defiant and poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who fall under his spell against the backdrop of political intrigue at Margareta's estate and the magnificent wintry beauty of rural Sweden.
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