The debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlof, "The Saga of
Gosta Berling" was first published in 1891. It is the story of its
titular character Gosta Berling, a deposed minister. Gosta 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 Loven in the story, in Varmland, a
historical province in Sweden, the novel employs elements of magic
realism to project an exotic image of early 19th century Sweden.
Described in the "Encyclopedia Americana" as a "prose epic of
Swedish country life," "The Saga of Gosta Berling" remains to this
day one of Lagerlof's most popular works and an undisputed classic
of Swedish romanticism.
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