Selma Lagerlöf

As yet the only woman winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the prize awarded to Kipling, Maeterlinck, and Hauptmann, is the Swedish author of this book, "Jerusalem." The Swedish Academy, in recognizing Miss Selma Lagerl f, declared that they did so "for reason of the noble idealism, the wealth of imagination, the soulful quality of style, which characterize her works." Five years later, in 1914, that august body elected Doctor Lagerl f into their fellowship, and she is thus the only woman among those eighteen "immortals."

Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlof's novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk tale, a love story and a Gothic melodrama. It crosses genre boundaries and locates itself in a borderland between reality and fantasy, madness and sanity, darkness and light, possession and loss, life and death. Lagerlof's two young characters, Gunnar and Ingrid, the one driven to madness by the horrific death of his goats in a blizzard, the other falling into a death-like trance as a result of the absence of familial warmth, rescue each other from their psychological underworlds and return to an everyday world that is now enhanced by the victory of goodness and love. Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940) quickly established herself as a major author of novels and short stories, and her work has been translated into close to 50 languages. Most of the translations into English were made soon after the publication of the original Swedish texts and have long been out of date. This Norvik Press series, 'Lagerlof in English', provides English-language readers with high-quality new translations of a selection of the Nobel Laureate's most important texts.

Här hittar du fyra noveller skrivna av Sveriges största och mest älskade författare. Selma Lagerlöf och Karin Boye skriver om kvinnlig frigörelse, Hjalmar Söderbergs berättelse är en existentiell exposé, medan August Strindbergs text är ett upprört svar på Henrik Ibsens för tiden kontroversiella pjäs Ett dockhem. Ett måste för alla litteraturälskare - inte minst för dem som ännu inte har stiftat bekantskap med dessa klassiska författarskap. Asken innehåller fyra böcker:August Strindberg - Ett dockhemKarin Boye - Ella gör sig friHjalmar Söderberg - Med strömmenSelma Lagerlöf - Spökhanden"Finaste gå-bort-presenten"Femina "En litterär pralinask." Svenska DagbladetNovellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.

"Die sch nsten Geschichten der Lagerl f" from Selma Lagerl f. Schwedische Schriftstellerin, erste Frau den Nobelpreis f r Literatur (1858-1940).

"Unsichtbare Bande" from Selma Lagerl f. Schwedische Schriftstellerin, erste Frau den Nobelpreis f r Literatur (1858-1940).

"Ein St ck Lebensgeschichte" from Selma Lagerl f. Schwedische Schriftstellerin, erste Frau den Nobelpreis f r Literatur (1858-1940).

"The Emperor of Portugallia" from Selma Lagerl f. Swedish author, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1858-1940).

"Jerusalem" from Selma Lagerl f. Swedish author, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1858-1940).

"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" from Selma Lagerl f. Swedish author, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1858-1940).

"The Girl From the Marsh Croft" from Selma Lagerl f. Swedish author, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1858-1940).