The Story of Gösta Berling

Lagerlöf, Selma

Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1906

About this Item

Small 8vo. Hardcover. Pp. 473. In very good condition; publisher's green cloth with gilt and colour illustration on the cover. Gilt title on spine. Cover shows slight signs of shelf-wear, with mild denting at top and bottom of spine. Very light rubbing at the corners. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing. Translated from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach. Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga (translated as 'The Story of Gosta Berling) at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914. The hero, Gösta Berling, is a defrocked Lutheran priest who has been saved by the Mistress of Ekeby from freezing to death and thereupon becomes one of her pensioners in the manor at Ekeby. As the pensioners finally get power in their own hands, they manage the property as they themselves see fit and their lives are filled with many wild adventures. Gösta Berling is their leading spirit, the poet, the charming personality among a band of revelers. Seller Inventory # 036474

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Story of Gösta Berling

Publisher: Little Brown, Boston

Publication Date: 1906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good