num_pages: 352
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.
language: English
title: Gösta Berling's Saga
titlecomplete: Gösta Berling's Saga
characters: Margareta Samzelius, Marianne Sinclaire, Gösta Berling, Sintram på Fors
genres: Fiction, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Sweden, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 5144
places: Sweden, Varmland
publisher: Penfield Pr