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CHARLOTTE LÖWENSKÖLD 

Translated by Linda Schenck

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Charlotte Löwensköld, being the second novel in the Löwensköld trilogy is the 

tale of the following generations. Charlotte is in love with Karl-Artur -- both 

have some Löwensköld blood. Their young love is ill fated; each goes on to 

marry another. How we make our life 'choices' and what evil forces can be at 

play around us is beautifully and ironically depicted.

THE LÖWENSKÖLD RING

Translated by Linda Schenck

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The Löwensköld Ring is the first volume of a trilogy originally published 

between 1925 and 1928. In addition to being a disturbing saga of revenge 

from beyond the grave, it is a tale of courageous, persistent women. The 

potent ring of the title brings suffering and violent death in its wake and its 

spell continues from one generation to the next.

ANNA SVÄRD 

Translated by Linda Schenck

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In this third part of the Löwensköld trilogy Anna Svärd, a poor but resourceful 

peddler, is thrust into an unlikely marriage to self-deluded clergyman Karl-

Artur. The trilogy’s theme of women’s struggle towards fulfilment takes a final 

step with a protagonist who assumes full and impressive control of her own 

destiny.  

A MANOR HOUSE TALE

Translated by Peter Graves

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A Manor House Tale crosses genre boundaries and locates itself in a borderland 

between reality and fantasy, madness and sanity, darkness and light, 

possession and loss, life and death. Lagerlöf’s two young characters, Gunnar 

and Ingrid, rescue each other from their psychological underworlds and 

return to an everyday world that is now enhanced by the victory of goodness 

and love.

Selma Lagerlöf

Lagerlöf in English

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THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

Translated by Peter Graves

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Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlöf’s The Phantom Carriage is a powerful 

combination of ghost story and social realism. Victor Sjöström’s 1920 film 

version of the story is one of the greatest achievements of the Swedish silent 

cinema.

LORD ARNE'S SILVER

Translated by Sarah Death

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Written in 1904, this tale of robbery and betrayal, love and retribution is set 

among the fishing community of Sweden’s west-coast archipelago in the 

sixteenth century.

Selma Lagerlöf

NILS HOLGERSSON'S WONDERFUL JOURNEY  

THROUGH SWEDEN

Translated by Peter Graves,  Illustrated by Bea Bonafini

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VOLUME 2    978-1-870041-97-3     380 PAGES     PAPERBACK     £12.95

COMPLETE VOL. 

978-1-909408-18-0     680 PAGES     HARDBACK     £29.95

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. 

Starting life as a school reader in geography, it quickly won the international 

fame it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who 

climbs on the gander's back and is then carried the length of the country, 

learning both geography and good behaviour as he goes, has captivated 

adults and children alike.

MÅRBACKA

Translated by Sarah Death

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Named after the author’s beloved childhood home, Mårbacka (1922) is the first 

part of a trilogy and can be read  as many different things: memoir, fictionalised 

autobiography, even part of Lagerlöf’s myth-making about her own successful 

career as an author. It is part social and family history, part mischievous satire 

in the guise of innocent, first-person child narration, part declaration of  

filial love.

'The personal is the 

geographical, the 

geographical becomes 

the personal, and 

Peter Graves' superb, 

attentively faithful new 

rendering of Selma 

Lagerlöf’s masterpiece 

makes  us understand 

this truth afresh.'

Paul Binding TLS

Lagerlöf in English

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THE PEOPLE OF HEMSÖ

Translated by Peter Graves

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This novel, a tragicomic story of lust, love and death among the fishermen and 

farmers of the islands of the Stockholm archipelago, reveals a very different 

Strindberg from the bitter controversialist of plays like The Father and Miss Julie. 

We witness a great series of peopled panoramas and we leave the novel with 

memories of grand landscapes and spirited scenes.

SWEDISH LITERATURE

August Strindberg

THE RED ROOM

Translated by Peter Graves

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August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a dramatist, 

but he was also a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and 

poetry. Although he spent many years abroad, Strindberg was born, grew up 

and died in Stockholm, and The Red Room is perhaps the quintessential 

Stockholm novel. A satire of the rapidly changing society of the 1870s, seen 

through the eyes of an aspiring writer, it was Strindberg’s first novel and 

marked his literary breakthrough.

STRINDBERG'S ONE-ACT PLAYS

Translated by A. Broome and others.

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This volume presents four of Strindberg’s lesser-known one-act plays, The 

Bond, Facing Death, The Outlaw and Simoom, written between 1871 and 1892. 

The Bond and Facing Death are familiarly naturalistic plays. The early experiment 

The Outlaw, however, takes place in the bleak landscapes of the Viking north, 

drawing heavily on the style of Icelandic sagas. In Simoon, a practically gothic 

narrative transports us to the scorching deserts of French-colonial Algeria.

'For me, The People of Hemsö is the Great Swedish Novel, just 

as... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the Great American 

Novel'. 

Ludvig Rasmusson

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