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The Saga of Gosta Berling
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The first new English translation in more than one hundred years of the Swedish Gone with the Wind
A Penguin Classic
In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo into stardom. A defrocked minister, Gösta Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate that also houses and assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars. His defiant and poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who fall under his spell in this sweeping historical epic set against the backdrop of the magnificent wintry beauty of rural Sweden.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Penguin Classic
In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo into stardom. A defrocked minister, Gösta Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate that also houses and assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars. His defiant and poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who fall under his spell in this sweeping historical epic set against the backdrop of the magnificent wintry beauty of rural Sweden.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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“Gosta Berling is a priest in a province of Värmland, in Sweden, that drinks a lot and is defrocked from his duties. He is homeless until a rich woman takes him to live in her house, Ekeby, alongside 12 other men, pensioners, known as cavaliers of Ekeby. Gosta is young and beautiful, so many women find him fascinating. The whole novel is mystical and magical, at times melodramatic, with glimpses of legends and fairy tales; and the language is very poetic. It is a story about honour, youth and living to enjoy life. I've never read anything quite like it and it was a very slow read for me. But, Selma Lagerlof was the first women who won a Nobel prize for literature and I definitely think this saga is worth reading.”
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About Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909. She is known around the world for her classic children's book The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson.
Paul Norlen (translator) was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize in 2004. He lives in Seattle.
George C. Schoolfield (introducer) is a professor emeritus of German and Scandinavian literature at Yale.
Paul Norlen (translator) was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize in 2004. He lives in Seattle.
George C. Schoolfield (introducer) is a professor emeritus of German and Scandinavian literature at Yale.
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