Selma Lagerlof

The Saga of Gosta Berlings

Novel of a defrocked clergyman's adventures and romances in rural Swedish aristocratic society

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Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlof

Swedish author and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her fiction drew on Swedish folklore and legend, blending romantic idealism with acute social observation in works like The Saga of Gosta Berlings.

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