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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Larssonwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Short Fiction
Chapters (45)
- Foreword 0:00
- The Spirit of Fasting and Petter Nord 1:43
- The Legend of the Bird’s Nest 1:38:06
- The King’s Grave 1:56:31
- The Outlaws 2:41:00
- The Legend of Reor 3:26:24
- Valdemar Atterdag 3:37:50
- Mamsell Fredrika 3:49:54
- The Romance of a Fisherman’s Wife 4:08:49
- His Mother’s Portrait 4:28:40
- A Fallen King 4:39:58
- A Christmas Guest 5:30:04
- Uncle Reuben 5:47:42
- Downie 6:05:28
- Among the Climbing Roses 7:11:38
- The Story of a Country House 7:21:36
- Queens at Kungahälla 10:59:48
- Old Agnete 13:13:47
- The Fisherman’s Ring 13:28:29
- Santa Caterina of Siena 14:09:26
- The Empress’s Money-Chest 14:39:33
- The Peace of God 14:57:49
- A Story from Halstanäs 15:23:29
- The Inscription on the Grave 15:43:36
- The Brothers 16:06:53
- The Holy Night 16:20:42
- The Emperor’s Vision 16:31:59
- The Wise Men’s Well 16:46:02
- Bethlehem’s Children 17:04:32
- The Flight Into Egypt 17:46:03
- In Nazareth 17:58:24
- In the Temple 18:07:16
- Saint Veronica’s Kerchief 18:36:02
- Robin Redbreast 20:10:12
- Our Lord and Saint Peter 20:24:08
- The Sacred Flame 20:42:54
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft 21:49:25
- The Silver Mine 23:52:12
- The Airship 24:22:58
- The Wedding March 25:09:42
- The Musician 25:20:35
- The Legend of the Christmas Rose 25:39:22
- A Story from Jerusalem 26:15:04
- Why the Pope Lived to Be So Old 26:33:46
- The Story of a Story 27:00:38
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Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish author, who, starting in 1891 with The Story of Gösta Berling, wrote a series of novels and short stories that soon garnered both national and international praise. This led to her winning the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings,” the first woman to do so. She happily wrote for both adults and children, but the same feeling of romantic infatuation with the spiritual mysteries of life runs through all of her work, often anchored to her childhood home of Värmland in middle Sweden.
The collection brings together the available public domain translations into English, in chronological order of their original publication. The subjects are many, and include Swedish folk-stories, Biblical legends, and tales of robbers, kings and queens, fishermen, and saints. They were translated by Pauline Bancroft Flach, Jessie Brochner, and Velma Swanston Howard.