Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 399 pages | ISBN 9780143105909 | 29 Sep 2009 | Penguin Classics | 18 - AND UP
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.
"At long last we have available to us a viable translation of one of the truly great works of Swedish literature sure to attract attention again to one of the region's most significant authors and works." -Scandinavian Studies
"Among [women novelists] of great talent or genius, none, in my opinion, is to be placed higher than Selma Lagerlöf." -Marguerite Yourcenar
"Every book of this great storyteller keeps on bringing us astonishing examples of her art. . . . No one in Europe can tell tales so unforgettably." -Hermann Hesse
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