College and High School Series of Swedish Authors
AUGUSTANA BOOK CONCERN
av
SELMA LAGERLÖF
With Notes and Vocabulary
Edited by
JULES MAURITZSON
PROFESSOR OF THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATUREAT AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
REVISED EDITION
AUGUSTANA BOOK CONCERN, ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS.
Copyright, 1913
by
Augustana Book Concern
ROCK ISLAND, ILL.
AUGUSTANA BOOK CONCERN, PRINTERS AND BINDERS
| PAGE | |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 5 |
| Silvergruvan | 7 |
| Bröllopsmarschen | 33 |
| Morbror Ruben | 43 |
| Kejsarens syn | 59 |
| Ljuslågan | 71 |
| Vocabulary | 121 |
Selma Lagerlöf was born at the Mårbacka homestead inVermland, Sweden, Nov. 20, 1858. Although in poor healthas a child, she early devoted herself to study, meanwhilegathering from the picturesque native environment a richfund of poetic impressions afterwards freely utilized in herliterary production. After due preparation she taught forten years (1885-95) in the Elementary School for Girls inthe city of Landskrona.
Her first published work, Gösta Berlings saga (1891),The Story of Gösta Berling, is a powerful and magnificentre-creation of episodes from real life in Vermland about1820. This romance won for her instant recognition athome and soon bore her name and fame to other lands.Within a few years it was translated into no less thantwelve languages.
Gösta Berling was followed by a succession of notableworks of which a mere record is here given: Osynliga länkar(1894), Invisible Links, a collection of short stories; Antikristsmirakler (1897), The Miracles of Antichrist, depictingin romantic form two contending forces in Sicilian life,hereditary faith in a grapple with the modern labor movement;Drottningar i Kungahälla (1899), another collectionof short stories; En herrgårdssägen, From a Swedish Homestead,a charming story, published separately the same year;the great novel Jerusalem (1901 and 1902), Jerusalem (I)and The Holy City (II), a work characterized by H. Hesse,a German writer and critic, as “the greatest and best contributionto modern Swedish romantic prose, a book onSweden’s soul, multiplex, yet single, benign, yet powerful, atonce realistic and visionary,—in no other recent work is thesoul of a nation so truly expressed;” Kristuslegender, Christ[6]L