A Book for Christmas

(Hardback)

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An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure - now available in English for the first time A little girl receives an unexpected Christmas present; creatures of the forest gather to celebrate the New Year in the glow of a wood nymph's torch; an evil noblewoman schemes against her beautiful niece; and a cantankerous gravedigger dines with a skull on Christmas Eve. In this selection of her most beloved winter stories, Selma Lagerl f weaves together magic and miracles, Swedish folklore and Biblical fables, darkness and light with heartfelt joy and boundless imagination. Newly translated into English for the first time, these stories comprise the ultimate festive anthology from one of the most important woman writers of the twentieth century.

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Among women novelists of great talent or genius, none, in my opinion, is to be placed higher than Selma Lagerlf -- Marguerite Yourcenar

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Selma Lagerl f (Author) Selma Lagerl f (1858-1940) was a teacher in a girls' secondary school before she became a full-time writer. She is known around the world for her classic children's book The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson and she was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in 1909.