THE BOY
THE ELF
Sunday, March twentieth.
Once there was a boy. He was—­let us
say—­something like fourteen years old;
long and loose-jointed and towheaded. He wasn&rsqu...
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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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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf
Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) Lagerlof