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Anna Svard

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Informationen zum Autor Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was born on a farm in Värmland! trained as a teacher and became! in her life-time! Sweden's most widely translated author ever. Novels such as Gösta Berlings saga (1891; Gösta Berling's Saga) and Jerusalem (1901-02) helped regenerate Swedish literature! and the school reader! Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07)! has achieved enduring international fame and popularity. Two very different trilogies! the Löwensköld trilogy (1925-28) and the Mårbacka trilogy (1922-32)! the latter often taken to be autobiographical! give some idea of the range and power of Lagerlöf's writing. Several of her texts inspired innovative films! among them Herr Arnes pengar (Sir Arne's Treasure)! directed by Mauritz Stiller (1919) and based on Herr Arnes penningar (1903; Lord Arne's Silver)! and Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage)! directed by Victor Sjöström (1921) and based on Lagerlöf's Körkarlen (1912). She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature! as the first woman ever! in 1909! and elected to the Swedish Academy! again as the first woman! in 1914. Having been able to buy back the farm of Mårbacka! which her family had lost as the result of bankruptcy! Lagerlöf spent the last three decades of her life combining her writing with the responsibilities for running a sizeable estate. Her work has been translated into close to 50 languages. Klappentext The curse on the Löwensköld family comes to fruition in unexpected ways in this final volume of the Löwensköld cycle. Anna Svärd is also very much a novel of women's struggle toward finding fulfillment. The Löwensköld Ring resonates with 'beggars cannot be choosers' in relation to what a poor woman can expect in life, while Charlotte Löwensköld moves toward women having some choices. In Anna Svärd the eponymous protagonist takes full and impressive control of her own life and destiny. The question of motherhood and the fates of the children with whom the characters engage is another theme. The reader goes on to follow Charlotte, Karl-Artur, Thea and their families, familiar from the previous volume, through this compact novel as it moves relentlessly toward a chilling dénoument.Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) quickly established herself as a major author of novels and short stories, and her work has been translated into close to 50 languages. Most of the translations into English were made soon after the publication of the original Swedish texts and have long been out of date. 'Lagerlöf in English' provides English-language readers with high-quality new translations of a selection of the Nobel Laureate's most important texts. Zusammenfassung The curse on the Lowenskold family comes to fruition in unexpected ways in this final volume of the Lowenskold cycle with Anna Svard! the eponymous protagonist! taking full and impressive control of her own life and destiny ...

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Authors Selma Lagerlof, Selma Lagerlöf
Assisted by Linda Schenck (Translation)
Publisher Norvik press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2016
 
EAN 9781909408289
ISBN 978-1-909408-28-9
No. of pages 330
Series Lagerlof in English
Lagerlof in English
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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