Short Fiction Selma Lagerlöf (best book club books of all time .txt) 📖

The peasants in the Dalar district used formerly to address everybody by the pronoun du (thou), even when speaking to the King; this custom is now, however, not so general. —⁠J. B. ↩

Pious and gentle Mother, thou who knowest our weak nature, guide us by thy prayers through this life’s vicissitudes. Thou, whom I saw and loved, in whom I believed and whom I adored, pray for us, that we may be worthy of Christ’s promises. Holy Caterina, pray for us! —⁠J. B. ↩

This story is an autobiographical account of the writing of The Story of Gösta Berling. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

Baroness Adlersparre⁠—pen name, Esselde⁠—was a noted Swedish writer, publisher, and philanthropist, and a contemporary of Fredrika Bremer. —⁠V. S. H. ↩

Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories published between 1894 and 1908 by
Selma Lagerlöf.
They were translated from Swedish between 1899 and 1910 by
Pauline Bancroft Flach, Jessie Brochner, and Velma Swanston Howard.

This ebook was produced for
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Robin Whittleton,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2004 by
Nicole Apostola, Fay Dunn, Shaun Pinder, Roger Frank, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg (Invisible Links, From a Swedish Homestead, Christ Legends and Other Stories and The Girl from the Marsh Croft)
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Invisible Links, From a Swedish Homestead, Christ Legends and Other Stories and The Girl from the Marsh Croft).

The cover page is adapted from
Selma Lagerlöf,
a painting completed in 1908 by
Carl Larsson.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

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May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

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