Selma Lagerlöf was 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 Gösta Berling.
"Among [women novelists] of great talent or genius, none, in my opinion, is to be placed higher than Selma Lagerlöf." -Marguerite Yourcenar
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