Selma Lagerlof - Böcker

Four books with short stories by some of Sweden s most beloved authors - a quartet of classic Swedish literature! This box includes: Astrid Lindgren - Most Beloved Sister & Mirabelle August Strindberg - Frictions Selma Lagerlöf - The Silver Mi...

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Selfish and lazy, fourteen-year-old Nils learns kindness and wisdom after he is bewitched into an elf-sized boy and carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland.

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Zum Däumling geschrumpft, zieht der kleine Nils Holgersson auf eine wunderbare Reise. Zusammen mit einer Schar Wildgänse fliegt er in den Norden und erlebt spannende Abenteuer. Als er die Chance erhält, wieder ein richtiger Junge zu werden, muss N...

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Kejsarn av Portugallien är en roman av den svenska författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf, den första kvinnan som fick Nobelpriset i litteratur 1909. Boken kom ut 1914 och handlar om Jan i Skrolycka. Jan var en fattig man i en liten by i Värmland, nära grä...

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The debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, "The Saga of Gösta Berling" was first published in 1891. It is the story of its titular character Gösta Berling, a deposed minister. Gösta Berling becomes one of the pensioners in the man...

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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 betwee...

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Jan Anderson fretted like a thief as his wife gave birth to the child, but he melted like a miracle when he first set eyes upon the little girl. The womenfolk must have read something in his eyes, or caught something in his tone that pleased them,...

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Enchanting tale about a boy who can understand the speech of animals, imparting information about nature, geography and native folklore.

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Gösta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the drink, torn by conflicting aims — the charm and deceit, love and laziness in him fighting for supremacy. He teams together with a group of...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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The first new English translation in more than one hundred years of the Swedish Gone with the WindA Penguin ClassicIn 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her...

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Since its publication in 1906, this book has become one of the most loved children's books of all times. A picture of Nils Holgersson, on the back of a goose flying over the Scandinavian plains, is printed on the reverse side of the Swedish 20 kro...

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"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" is the children's classic by Swedish author Selma Lagerlof. Lagerlof published her charming coming-of-age tale in 1906 after being commissioned by the National Teachers Association of Sweden in 1902 to write a ge...

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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 on...

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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:...

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Selma Lagerlof, author of the classic "e;The Wonderful Adventures of Nils"e; among many other works, was one of the great Swedish writers of all time. This volume assembled 31 of Lagerlof's classic novels and short stories. Included are:TH...

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