Selma Lagerlof

"The Christmas Stories by Selma Lagerlöf: Illustrated" is a charming compilation of holiday tales penned by the renowned Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. This anthology features three enchanting stories: "A Christmas Guest," "The Holy Night," and "The Legend of the Christmas Rose." Selma Lagerlöf, known for her lyrical prose and storytelling prowess, invites readers to experience the magic and wonder of Christmas through her narratives. These stories...

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...

The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. Nils captures a tomte (mythological creature from Nordic folklore) in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge...

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...

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...

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.

A smorgasbord of Christmas stories by writers, from Hans Christian Andersen to August Strindberg to Karl Ove Knausgaard. This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark, Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden, as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgaard. These Nordic tales, coming from the very region, where so...