The Story of Gösta Berling
By (author): "Selma Lagerlöf"
Publish Date:
1891
ISBN917400154X
ISBN139789174001549
AsinThe Story of Gösta Berling
CharactersGösta Berling, Margareta Samzelius, Sintram på Fors, Marianne Sinclair
Original titleGösta Berlings saga
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891 novel. The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant Swedish cavaliers and enters into a power struggle with the richest woman in the province.