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Selma Lagerlöf (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Selma Lagerlöf’s first novel, Gösta Berling’s Saga, is a cycle of stories with a common setting and a shared cast of characters; short stories, particularly tales drawn from oral traditions of her native Värmland, are Lagerlöf’s most characteristic form. Lagerlöf published several volumes of stories, and two of her works, The Treasure and the trilogy The Ring of the Löwenskölds, could be classified as tales. Two of Lagerlöf’s major story collections, Osynliga länkar (1894; Invisible Links, 1899) and...

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