Lagerlof Selma - The Saga Of Gosta Berling - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: One hundred years ago Selma Lagerl f 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 G sta 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.
Title: The Saga Of Gosta Berling
Author(s): Lagerlof Selma
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143105909
Pages: 399 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Category: Classic Fiction