Selma Lagerlöf
4 livros
- Gösta Berling NederlandsGösta Berling, een afgezette predikant met veel te veel charme, sluit zich aan bij de cavaliers die op het landgoed Ekeby in Värmland een jaar lang drinken en dansen. Lagerlöf vertelt het als half wilde legenden over wolven en bevroren meren, dus neem het als een saga.
- Short Fiction EnglishThese are stories where miracles happen in kitchens and farmyards, Värmland legends and Christ legends told with a straight face and a warm heart, like the marsh croft girl whose stubborn honesty upends a courtroom. If quiet, folk-tale strangeness suits you better than irony, she'll hold up.
- The Story of Gösta Berling EnglishYou get Gösta, a defrocked drunken priest who keeps wrecking and redeeming himself, plus a whole manor of pensioned cavaliers running riot on Ekeby for a year. It reads like Värmland folklore told by firelight, episodic and feverish, so skip it if you need a tidy plot.
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils EnglishNils starts out mean, honestly, a boy who torments the farm animals, and watching him earn the trust of Akka and the wild geese as they fly the length of Sweden is quietly moving. It's episodic and folkloric, better savored a chapter a night than rushed.