Gösta Berling's Saga
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891 novel. The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant Swedish cavaliers and enters into a power...
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The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891 novel. The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant Swedish cavaliers and enters into a power struggle with the richest woman in the province.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781572160330 (1572160330)
ASIN: 1572160330
Publish date: June 1st 1997
Publisher: Penfield Press
Pages no: 349
Edition language: English
Enfin, la maladie était vaincu. De nouveau, froide et raisonnable, Marianne se faisait l'effet d'être la seule personne sensée dans un monde de fous. Elle n'avait plus ni haine ni amour. Elle comprenait son père. Elle les comprenait tous. Qui comprend ne hait pas.
bookshelves: nobel-laureate, sweden, lit-richer, published-1891, spring-2015, film-only, debut, teh-demon-booze Read from February 05 to March 07, 2015 Description: The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant S...
Larger-than-life Swedish epic, with some great images. Not sure how well her beautiful poetic Swedish translates though - maybe this is why the book is virtually unknown in English.
42 years ago
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