Selma Lagerlöf
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"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It was originally published in two books, "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" in 1906 and "Further Adventures of Nils" in 1907. The background for its publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902, which asked Lagerlöf to write a geography reader for the public schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing...
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At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) there lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the goodhearted, widowed, Pastor Lyselius and his beautiful daughter. Here one day, arrives his new wife, who turns out to be a wicked stepmother. She tempts with her cooking and other allurements, but soon shows her real self. She torments her servants and especially the parson's daughter, mamsell Maia Lisa. We...
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"The Emperor of Portugallia" by Selma Lagerlof was first published in 1914 in Sweden and in 1916 in English. The story is set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870 and centers on Jan of Ruffluck Croft. He loves his daughter more than anything, but when the latter moves to Stockholm, she never sends a word home. As a result, Jan sinks into a dream-world where she is the noble Empress of Portugallia and he believes himself to be Emperor too. His whole world...
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Invisible Links (Osynliga länkar) is a collection of short stories with an underlying theme about the links that influence and guide people's actions and lives. It was first published in 1894 and the English translation in 1895. The stories are often set in Lagerlöf's Vaermland, but they also depict legends and history of Sweden, and some have connections to other works by Lagerlöf. Invisible Links is a good introduction to the writings of Selma...
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"Herr Arne's Hoard" is a 1904 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. Its original Swedish title is "Herr Arnes penningar," which means "Sir Arne's money". Set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenaries who escape from prison. The group then murders a family in order to steal a treasure chest, but one of them falls in love with the family's sole survivor. The novel has been adapted for film three times:...
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Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of Gösta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensioners' wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of largerthanlife stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness. Gösta Berling was the eventual...
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The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Selma Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891novel. Inspsired by the legends, superstitions, and fairy tales of Lagerlöf's native Värmland region, Gösta Berling's Saga features a vivid cast of characters. The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his ministerial career, falls in with a dozen vagrant Swedish cavaliers and...
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Jerusalem is a novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof. The narrative spans several generations in the 19th century, and focuses on several families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a community of Swedish emigrants in Jerusalem. It is loosely based on a real emigration that took place from the parish of Nas in 1896.
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In Schweden, wo die Tage den Nächten gleichen, ist Weihnachten ein ganz besonderes Fest: Es bringt Licht und Freude in die dunkle Jahreszeit. Selma Lagerlöf fängt diese besondere Stimmung ein und lässt ihre Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen mit dem reichen skandinavischen Sagen- und Legendenschatz verschmelzen – denn aus der Feder der schwedischen Schriftstellerin stammt nicht nur der bekannte Kinderbuch-Klassiker Nils Holgersson, sondern auch...
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Musaicum Books present to you this meticulously edited Christmas collection by Swedish Nobel Prize winner, containing charming and warmhearted novels and tales, children's stories and legends of Christmas.
Contents:
Novels:
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Story of GöstaBerling
The Emperor of Portugallia
Charlotte Löwensköld
Tales:
The Spirit of Fasting and Petter Nord
The Outlaws
MamsellFredrika
The Christmas Guest
The Legend of the Christmas...
11) The Outcast
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Excerpt: "On the island of Grimön, among the rocks and reefs of the western coast of Sweden, there lived, some years back, a man and his wife. The two were much unlike each other. Joel Elversson, the husband, was the elder of the pair by fifteen years or so. Ill-favoured to look at, heavy and slow, he had always been, and age had not improved him. His wife, on the other hand, was still as neat and pleasant a little body as ever; far from having lost...
12) Nils Holgerssons wunderbare Reise durch Schweden: Damals – heute – morgen: Reclams Klassikerinnen
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Nils Holgersson ist faul, quält die Tiere auf dem elterlichen Hof und stiftet Unheil, wo er nur kann – bis er eines Tages von einem Kobold in einen Däumling verwandelt wird. Er versteht nun die Sprache der Tiere, schließt sich mit dem zahmen Gänserich Martin einer Gruppe Wildgänse an und begibt sich auf ein einzigartiges Abenteuer. Während er auf dem Rücken des Gänserichs durch Schweden getragen wird, erfährt er alles über die Tiere, sein...
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DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Christmas collection: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love...
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"Short Stories of Various Types" by Selma Lagerlöf, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alphonse Daudet, Booth Tarkington, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Myra Kelly, Hamlin Garland, James Matthew Barrie, Francis Bret Harte, Katherine Mayo. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or...
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"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" is the children's classic by Swedish author Selma Lagerlof. Lagerlof published her charming coming-of-age tale in 1906 after being commissioned by the National Teachers Association of Sweden in 1902 to write a geography reading book for children in public schools. "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" centers around the travels of its main character, a young boy named Nils Holgersson, who begins the tale causing mischief...
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The debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, "The Saga of Gösta Berling" was first published in 1891. It is the story of its titular character Gösta Berling, a deposed minister. Gösta Berling becomes one of the pensioners in the manor at Ekeby when he is saved by the Mistress of Ekeby from freezing to death. Set on the shores of Lake Fryken, Lake Löven in the story, in Värmland, a historical province in Sweden, the novel employs elements...
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Suecia, 1800. Eleonora, de tan solo trece años y a la que todos conocen como «Pequeñita», entra a trabajar en la rectoría de Lövdala el día de Nochebuena. Allí viven el bondadoso pastor Lyselius, su hija de diecisiete años, Maja Lisa, huérfana de madre, y su madrastra, la señora Raklitz, hija de un trompetista alemán. Maja Lisa, que adora a su padre, cuenta el cuento de Blancanieves como si fuera su propia historia y Pequeñita se va dando...
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This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark...
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DigiCat presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of...
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Inhalt:
Ihr Kinderlein, kommet (Christoph von Schmid)
Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen
Die Heilige und ihr Narr (Agnes Günther)
Der kleine Lord (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Weihnacht! (Karl May)
Nils Holgerssons wunderbare Reise mit den Wildgänsen (Selma Lagerlöf)
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Die Familie Pfäffling (Agnes Sapper)
Der Weihnachtsfund (Hermann Kurz)
Vor dem Sturm (Theodor Fontane)
Else von der Tanne (Wilhelm Raabe)
Puckis erstes Schuljahr (Magda...