THE SPIRIT OF FASTING AND PETTER NORD
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I can see before me the little town, friendly as a
home. It is so small that I know its every hole
and corner, am friends with all the children and know
t...
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The Swedish author Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) is noted for her ability to recreate a world of legend in an apparently simple, naive style. She was the first woman to receive the ...
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In 1909 Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. By her eightieth birthday she had been translated into forty languages, and her books are still reissued...
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