Selma Lagerlöf
Born
in Mårbacka, Värmland, Sweden
November 20, 1858
Died
March 06, 1940
Genre
Influences
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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643 editions
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published
1906
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The Emperor of Portugalia
177 editions
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published
1914
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Gösta Berling's Saga
323 editions
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published
1891
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En herrgårdssägen
56 editions
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published
1899
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Herr Arnes penningar
48 editions
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published
1904
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Jerusalem (Jerusalem, #1)
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61 editions
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published
1901
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The Löwensköld Ring
63 editions
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published
1925
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Körkarlen
62 editions
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published
1912
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La leggenda della rosa di Natale
35 editions
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published
1910
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Jerusalem
157 editions
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published
1901
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“Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.”
― Gösta Berling's Saga
― Gösta Berling's Saga
“What Gosta,' he said to himself, 'can you no longer endure? You have been hardened in poverty all of your life; you have heard every tree in the forest, every tuft in the meadows preach to you of sacrifice and patience. You, brought up in a country where the winter is severe, and the summer joy is very short, have you forgotten the art of bearing your trials?
'Oh Gosta, a man must bear all that life gives him with a courageous heart and a smile on his lips, else he is no man. Sorrow as much as you will. If you love your beloved, let your conscience burn and chafe within you, but show yourself a man and a Varmlander. Let your glances beam with joy, and meet your friends with a gay word on your lips! Life and nature are hard. They bring forth courage and joy as a counterweight against their own hardness, or no one could endure them...”
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'Oh Gosta, a man must bear all that life gives him with a courageous heart and a smile on his lips, else he is no man. Sorrow as much as you will. If you love your beloved, let your conscience burn and chafe within you, but show yourself a man and a Varmlander. Let your glances beam with joy, and meet your friends with a gay word on your lips! Life and nature are hard. They bring forth courage and joy as a counterweight against their own hardness, or no one could endure them...”
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Polls
April 2016 Old School Classic Poll
1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages
1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages
1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages
1897, Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 161 pages
1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages
1844, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas, 542 pages
1778, Evelina by Fanny Burney, 455 pages
1891, Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, 368 pages
1877, Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, 355 pages
1871, The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 132 pages
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