num_pages: 368
description: The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlöf 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.The book has a Faustian theme revolving around a possible deal with the Devil. It also deals with social issues such as poverty and depression, as well as mixing in elements of myths and humorous love stories.
language: English
title: Gösta Berling's Saga
titlecomplete: Gösta Berling's Saga
characters: Margareta Samzelius, Sintram på Fors, Gösta Berling, Marianne Sinclaire
genres: Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Sweden, Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 5144
places: Varmland, Sweden
publisher: Dover Publications