The Story of Gosta Berling

A novel set in the farm- and woodlands of nineteenth-century Sweden. The central theme is an unfrocked minister's picaresque search for redemption--as he beomes a ne'er-do-well given to drinking, dancing and women. Illustrated with a map and a frontis sculpture of the author, by Arvid Backlund. Miss Lagerlof was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1982, Press' Forlagstryckeri, Karlstad, Sweden