The first new English translation in more than one hundred years of
the Swedish Gone with the Wind
A Penguin Classic
In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in
Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved
novel--and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that
launched Greta Garbo into stardom. A defrocked minister, Gösta Berling
finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate that also houses and
assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars. His defiant and
poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who fall under his
spell in this sweeping historical epic set against the backdrop of the
magnificent wintry beauty of rural Sweden.
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