Story of Gösta Berling
By: by Selma Lagerlöf ; translated from the Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach
Publisher: Doubleday, Page
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Garden City, NY
Language: eng
Translated from: swe
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: Swedish fiction; Translations into English; Women authors
Work titles: Gösta Berlings saga
Description: "Set in 1820s Sweden, it tells the story of a defrocked minister named G̲sta Berling. After his appetite for alcohol and previous indiscretions end his career, Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate owned by Margareta Celsing, the "Majoress," that also houses and assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars. Berling's defiant and poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who fall under his spell against the backdrop of political intrigue at Margareta's estate and the magnificent wintry beauty of rural Sweden."--Amazon.
Notes: Translation of Gösta Berlings saga.
Table of contents: title: The priest; title: The beggar.; title: Part 1. The landscape; title: Christmas eve; title: Christmas day; title: Gösta Berling, poet; title: La cachucha; title: The ball at Ekeby; title: The old vehicles; title: The great bear in Gurlitta Cliff; title: The auction at Bj̲rne; title: The young countess; title: Ghost-stories; title: Ebba Dohna's story; title: Mamselle Marie.