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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" is the work of Sweden's greatest fiction writer. She devoted three years to nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life, and wove them all into her story.
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The story of Gösta Berling
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Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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Christ Legends
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Selma Lagerlof
When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow! I hardly know if I have had a greater since then. It was then that my grandmother died. Up to that time, she used to sit every day on the corner sofa in her room, and tell stories. I remember grandmother told story after story from morning till night, and we children sat beside her, quite still, ...
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Jerusalem
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Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. JERUSALEM was written following her trip to Egypt and Palestine in the winter of 1900; the book was inspired by an actual historic event -- a religious pilgrimage of 25 adults and children from Chicago. "JERUSALEM begins with the ...
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The Treasure
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Selma Lagerlof
At Marstrand lived a poor fishseller named Torarin. He traveled with a dog named Grim, who rode beside him on his sledge. Mostly the dog rode quietly, but if Torarin said anything disquieting, he stood up howled like a wolf. Marstrand."
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Further Adventures of Nils
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Selma Lagerlof
One afternoon Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock alighted on the shore of a forest lake. Spring was backward -- as it always is in the mountain districts. Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land. The geese at once plunged into the water to bathe and hunt for food. In the morning Nils Holgersson had dropped one of his wooden ...
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Gösta Berling's saga
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Selma Lagerlöf, Lillie Tudeer
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlof 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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Invisible Links
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Selma Lagerlof
Included in this volume of Selma Lagerlof's short fiction are "The Spirit of Fasting and Petter Nord," "The Legend of the Bird's Nest," "The King's Grave," "The Outlaws," "The Legend of Reor," "Valdemar Atterdag," "Mamsell Fredrika," "The Romance of a Fisherman's Wife," "His Mother's Portrait," "A Fallen King," "A Christmas Guest," "Uncle Reuben," ...
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The Miracles of Antichrist
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Year after year the Franciscans defended the Capitol by penitences, and works of charity, and the promulgation of God's word. They protected it century after century, but as time went on, men became more and more feeble and lacking in force. The monks said among themselves: "Soon the kingdoms of the earth can stand no longer. A redeemer of the ...
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Memories of Marbacka
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Gosta Berling's Saga
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Selma Ottilia Lagerloef, S Lagerlof
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The Emperor of Portugalia
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Jan Anderson fretted like a thief as his wife gave birth to the child, but he melted like a miracle when he first set eyes upon the little girl. The womenfolk must have read something in his eyes, or caught something in his tone that pleased them, for they burst out laughing at him. "Say, Jan, have you never cared so much for somebody that your ...
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The Holy City, Jerusalem II (1918)
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Selma Lagerlof, Velma Swanston Howard (Translator)
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The Legend of the Christmas Rose
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Selma Lagerlof
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft and Others
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Selma Lagerlof
Readers of Miss Lagerlof will observe that in this, her latest book, _The Girl from the Marsh Croft, _ the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism. This writer's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first successful work, _Gosta Berling._ How _The Story of Gosta ...
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El Maravilloso Viaje de Nils Holgersson
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Words of Wisdom from the Vikings
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Press Penfield (Creator), Selma Lagerlof, J Asala
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Gösta Berling
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Jerusalen
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Selma Lagerlof, Caterina Pascual Soderbaum (Translator)
Based on true accounts of the events of July 23, 1896, this narrative tells the story of 37 Swedish farmers who embark on a pilgrimage--abandoning their homeland and reestablishing themselves in Palestine. Alternating between those who went in search of the Holy Land and those who stayed behind, the author creates an epic saga that shares sources ...
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The ring of the Lowenskolds.
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Selma Lagerlöf, Francesca Martin, Velma Swanston Howard
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Liliecrona's home; a novel
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Selma Lagerlöf, Anna Barwell
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Maravilloso Viaje de Nils Holgersson
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The Legend of the Sacred Image
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Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlof won the Nobel Prize in 1909, and was the first woman to do so, and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages. Her novels usually describe her homeland of Sweden, but in The Legend of the Sacred Image the focus is on a story about a ...
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for her children's story The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906-07) she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that ...
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The ring of the Löwenskölds : including The general's ring, Charlotte Löwensköld, Anna Svärd
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Selma Lagerlöf, Francesca Martin, Velma Swanston Howard
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