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Anna Svärd (novel)
''Anna Svärd'' is a 1928 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. It is the last installment in Lagerlöf's Ring trilogy, where it follows ''The Löwensköld Ring'' and ''Charlotte Löwensköld''. ''Anna Svärd'' was first translated into English by Velma Swanston Howard under the original title, and so published by Doubleday, Doran in 1931 as part of its edition of the trilogy under the title ''The Ring of the Löwenskölds'' (). Many lives are interwoven in the book: Karl-Arthur himself, the preacher with his self-defeating ideals of self-denial and sacrifice, the practical valley girl Anna Svärd, who holds on to her own to the very end and does not want to share with anyone in heaven or on earth, Charlotte Schagerström who lives happily with her husband but still cannot forget Karl-Arthur, the obnoxious Thea Sundler, the "baron of jokes" Göran Löwensköld, a cavalier figure, and the entire Löwensköld family in Karlstad and at Hedeby Farm. The story also weaves in man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy. Life Early years Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was born on 20 November 1858 at Mårbacka, Värmland, Union between Sweden and Norway, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter of Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, a lieutenant in the Royal Värmland Regiment, and Louise Lagerlöf (''née'' Wallroth), whose father was a well-to-do merchant and a foundry owner (). Lagerlöf was the couple's fifth child out of six. She was born with a Hip dysplasia (human), hip injury, which was caused by detachment in the hip joint. At the age of three and a half, a sickness left her lame in both legs, although s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bonniers Förlag
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The Löwensköld Ring
''The Löwensköld Ring'' () is a 1925 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. It was first translated into English by Francesca Martin as ''The General's Ring'', and thus published by Doubleday, Doran in 1928. It is the first installment in Lagerlöf's Ring trilogy, which Doubleday, Doran named ''The Ring of the Löwenskölds'' in a 1931 publication. Thus, it was followed by '' Charlotte Löwensköld'' and '' Anna Svärd''. The ghostly story takes place in the area around Karlstad. The family's name is taken from the Löwenhielm family, but Lagerlöf first called the book and the people Löwenborg, a name that often appeared in the newspapers at the time. Since there were people from the Löwenborg family alive, however, the publisher changed the name to Löwensköld. Hans Gillingstam, släktartikel, ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', Stockholm 1983, s. 535 Plot The plot begins with a view of General Bengt Löwensköld at Hedeby. Much focus is on the gold ring he received from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Löwensköld
''Charlotte Löwensköld'' is a 1925 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. It is the second installment in Lagerlöf's Ring trilogy, or ''The Ring of the Löwenskölds''. Thus it follows ''The Löwensköld Ring'' and is followed by '' Anna Svärd''. ''Charlotte Löwensköld'' was first translated into English by Velma Swanston Howard under the original title, and so published by Doubleday, Doran in 1927—prior to the first English-language edition of ''The Löwensköld Ring''. The novel has been adapted for the screen as a 1930 film, and as a 1979 film starring Ingrid Janbell, both under the original title. Plot The novel begins by introducing the colonel Beate Ekenstedt, of the Löwensköld family from Hedeby, later married and living in Karlstad. She is a beautiful, educated woman, but ignores her husband and daughters in favor of her son Karl-Arthur, for whom she has enormous hopes. He is expected to become a great man, but when he studies in Uppsala the fine resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1928. Events *January **The Soviet magazine ''Oktyabr (magazine), Oktyabr'' begins publishing Mikhail Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' («Тихий Дон», ''Tikhiy Don'') in instalments. **Ford Madox Ford publishes ''Last Post (novel), Last Post'' in the U.K., as the last in his World War I tetralogy ''Parade's End'', which has been appearing since 1924 in literature, 1924. *January 16 – The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. Pallbearers include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. Meanwhile, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma Gifford, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Flore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Literature
Swedish literature () is the literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden. The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around 1100 AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages, during which monastic writers preferred to use Latin. Therefore, there are only a few texts in the Old Swedish from that period. Swedish literature only flourished after the Swedish literary language was developed in the 16th century, which was largely due to the full translation of the Christian Bible into Swedish in 1541. This translation is the so-called Gustav Vasa Bible. With improved education and the freedom brought by secularisation, the 17th century saw several notable authors develop the Swedish language further. Some key figures include Georg Stiernhielm (17th century), who was the first to write classical poetry in Swedish; Johan Henric Kellgren (18th century), the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Swedish Novels
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Novels By Selma Lagerlöf
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bonniers Förlag Books
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