Story of Gösta Berling
Author: first_name: Selma
last_name: Lagerlöf
Language: English
Year: 1898

"The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence.<br /><br />
The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of the 19th Century century. Värmland is a lonely tract in the southern part of Sweden, and has retained many of its old customs, while mining is the principal industry of its sparse population. It consists of great stretches of forest, sloping down to long, narrow