The Saga of Gösta Berling

A rousing classic by a Novel Prize-winning author

The first book by Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) is the story of Gösta Berling, a defrocked minister, and the “cavaliers” who live on a Swedish estate in the 1820s.

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