Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of G�sta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensioners' wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of larger-than-life stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness. G�sta Berling was the eventual Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerl�f's first published novel, and was written as an entry to a magazine competition. The richly ...
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Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of G�sta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensioners' wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of larger-than-life stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness. G�sta Berling was the eventual Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerl�f's first published novel, and was written as an entry to a magazine competition. The richly detailed landscapes of V�rmland were drawn from her own upbringing there, and the local folk tales inspired many of the individual stories in the book. The novel was published in Swedish in 1891; this edition is based on the 1898 English translation by Pauline Bancroft Flach. In 1924 the story was made into a silent film, launching the career of Greta Garbo.
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