The Saga of Goesta Berling (Paperback)

A Swedish "Gone with the Wind" by the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature--published here in the first new English translation in more than 100 years
One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerlof became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and best-loved novel, and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo to stardom. Set in 1820s Sweden, it tells the story of a defrocked minister named Gosta 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 an assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleonic 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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2011
First published:	September 2009
Authors:	Selma Lagerloef
Introduction by:	George C. Schoolfield
Translators:	Paul Norlen
Dimensions:	197 x 129 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	399
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-310590-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Swedish
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-14-310590-6
Barcode:	9780143105909

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