Selma Lagerlöf Books In Order

Nils Holgersson Books In Order

  1. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906)
  2. The Further Adventures of Nils (1907)

Novels

  1. Gosta Berling’s Saga (1891)
  2. The Miracles of Antichrist (1897)
  3. Jerusalem (1901)
  4. Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (1912)
  5. The Emperor of Portugallia (1914)
  6. Legend of the Sacred Image (1914)
  7. Liliecrona’s Home (1917)
  8. The Outcast (1918)
  9. The Ring of the Lowenskolds (1925)
  10. The Treasure (1925)
  11. Anna Svard (1928)
  12. The Legend of the Christmas Rose (1942)
  13. From a Swedish Homestead (1970)
  14. Holy Night (1984)
  15. The Changeling (1992)
  16. Queens of Kungahalla (2001)

Collections

  1. Invisible Links (1894)
  2. Christ Legends (1904)
  3. The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1907)
  4. Three Stories Scandinavian Kings and Queens (1982)
  5. Great Short Stories from around the World (1985)
  6. The Girl from the Marsh Croft and Others (2004)
  7. A Very Scandinavian Christmas (2019)

Non fiction

  1. Memories of Marbacka (1922)
  2. The Diary of Selma Lagerlof (1932)

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Selma Lagerlöf Books Overview

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils which is the work of Sweden’s greatest fiction writer was first published in Stockholm, in December, 1906. Lagerl f wrote it after a commission from the National Teachers’ Association to write a reader for the public schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life; she sought out unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces, and wove them all into her story. With no small success; the book immediately became the most popular book of the year in Scandinavia. ‘The great author stands as it were in the background. The prophetess is forgotten for the voices that speak through her. It is as though the book had sprung direct from the soul of the Swedish nation.’ Stockholm’s Dagblad ‘…
a classic…
. A masterwork.’ Sydsvenska Dagbladet ‘…
the great story teller, the greatest, perhaps, in Scandinavian literature since the days of Hans Christian Andersen…
. The Adventures of Nils will always be precious…
.’ Gefle Posten

The Further Adventures of Nils

One afternoon Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock alighted on the shore of a forest lake. Spring was backward as it always is in the mountain districts. Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land. The geese at once plunged into the water to bathe and hunt for food. In the morning Nils Holgersson had dropped one of his wooden shoes, so he went down by the elms and birches that grew along the shore, to look for something to bind around his foot. The boy walked quite a distance before he found anything that he could use. He glanced about nervously, for he did not fancy being in the forest. ‘Give me the plains and the lakes!’ he thought. ‘There you can see what you are likely to meet. Now, if this were a grove of little birches, it would be well enough, for then the ground would be almost bare; but how people can like these wild, pathless forests is incomprehensible to me. If I owned this land I would chop down every tree.’

Gosta Berling’s Saga

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website GeneralBooksClub. com. You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Publication date: 1918; Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Sagas; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Romance / General; Fiction / General;

The Miracles of Antichrist

The Miracles of Antichrist relies heavily on the legends and folk tales of Sicily. The descriptions, rich in the warm colors of the South, convey Lagerl f’s understanding of the hot blooded Sicilians with the same insight and sympathy, which she evokes while describing the introspective Swedes. Lagerl f borrows from an ancient Sicilian legend, which says, ‘When Antichrist comes he shall seem as Christ. There shall be great want, and Antichrist shall go from land to land and give bread to the poor. And he shall find many followers.’ Masterfully, she intertwines a tale of modern Sicily in an era when revolutionary socialism is sweeping the island and making heavy inroads upon the influence of the church. Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerl f 1858 1940 was born in Sweden. She had been writing poetry ever since she was a child, but she did not publish anything until 1890, when a Swedish newspaper gave her the first prize in a literary competition and published excerpts from her first novel, G sta Berlings Saga published in 1891 and very successful. During her travels to Italy she wrote The Miracles of Antichrist in 1897. After several minor works she published Jerusalem translated in English as The Holy City but it was with The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, a book for children, that she became recognized worldwide. In 1909. she became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages.

Jerusalem

Selma Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. Jerusalem was written following her trip to Egypt and Palestine in the winter of 1900; the book was inspired by an actual historic event a religious pilgrimage of 25 adults and children from Chicago. ‘Jerusalem begins with the history of a wealthy and powerful farmer family, the Ingmarssons of Ingmar Farm, and develops to include the whole parish life with its varied farmer types, its pastor, schoolmaster, shopkeeper, and innkeeper. The romance portrays the religious revival introduced by a practical mystic from Chicago which leads many families to sell their ancestral homesteads and in the last chapter of this volume to emigrate in a body to the Holy Land.’ From the introduction by Henry Goddard Leach.

Legend of the Sacred Image

Selma Lagerlof won the Nobel Prize in 1909, and was the first woman to do so, and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages. Her novels usually describe her homeland of Sweden, but in The Legend of the Sacred Image the focus is on a story about a vision of Mary and Christ in Palermo.

The Treasure

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG The Treasure is an opposite fairy tale, presenting Prince Charming as he really is: an orphan girl is cleaning fish and foreseeing her life of poverty; a man well dressed in seductive splendor woos her and offers her…
forever after. There is only one catch: she must betray her sister. Although Selma Lagerlof won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1909, her name is known in this country if at all as author of a children’s book only. All her other works, including novels and feminist essays, have been unavailable in English for almost fifty years.

The Legend of the Christmas Rose

In hope of getting her husband pardoned, an exiled outlaw’s wife agrees to reveal to an old monk the miracle in Go inge Forest, where every Christmas Eve a beautiful garden blooms in remembrance of the birth of the Christ Child.

Holy Night

‘What that shepherd saw, we might also see, for the angels fly down from heaven every Christmas Eve, if we could only see them.’ from The Holy Night

Here is a colorfully illustrated edition of Selma Lagerl f’s classic Christmas tale. One cold winter night a cruel, hard hearted shepherd is amazed by the strange events. When a man comes to look for firewood to warm his wife and newborn baby, the dogs don t bite him, the sheep don t run away, and the fire doesn t scorch him. Following the man back to his cold grotto, the shepherd discovers the true spirit of Christmas. Ages 5 8

Invisible Links

Included in this volume of Selma Lagerlof’s short fiction are ‘The Spirit of Fasting and Petter Nord,’ ‘The Legend of the Bird’s Nest,’ ‘The King’s Grave,’ ‘The Outlaws,’ ‘The Legend of Reor,’ ‘Valdemar Atterdag,’ ‘Mamsell Fredrika,’ ‘The Romance of a Fisherman’s Wife,’ ‘His Mother’s Portrait,’ ‘A Fallen King,’ ‘A Christmas Guest,’ ‘Uncle Reuben,’ ‘Downie,’ and ‘Among the Climbing Roses.’

Christ Legends

When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow! I hardly know if I have had a greater since then. It was then that my grandmother died. Up to that time, she used to sit every day on the corner sofa in her room, and tell stories. I remember grandmother told story after story from morning till night, and we children sat beside her, quite still, and listened. It was a glorious life! No other children had such happy times as we did. It isn’t much that I recollect about my grandmother. I remember that she had very beautiful snow white hair, and stooped when she walked, and that she always sat and knitted a stocking. And I even remember that when she had finished a story, she used to lay her hand on my head and say: ‘All this is as true, as true as that I see you and you see me.’ I also remember that she could sing songs, but this she did not do every day. One of the songs was about a knight and a sea troll, and had this refrain: ‘It blows cold, cold weather at sea…

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

When I see a stream like this in the wilderness,’ he thought, ‘I am reminded of my own life. As persistent as this stream have I been in forcing my way past all that has obstructed my path. Father has been my rock ahead, and mother tried to hold me back and bury me between moss tufts, but I stole past both of them and got out in the world. Hay ho, hi, hi! I think mother is still sitting at home and weeping for me. But what do I care! She might have known that I should amount to something some day, instead of trying to oppose me!

Memories of Marbacka

Selection of autobiographical writings by Selma Lagerlf. Tells of her childhood, young adulthood and the family estate Marbacka. Selma was crippled in her childhood and decided early to become a writer. Her family lost the estate, but years later, she was able to purchase it back. Today Marbacka is open to visitors. Selma Lagerlof 1858 1940 is one of Swedens best loved storytellers. In 1909, she became the first woman and the first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; later she was the first woman to be inducted into the Swedish Academy. Her writings possess keen psychological insight and address the perennial struggles and joys of human existence. They are among Swedens prized possessions and the treasures of world literature.

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