{"product_id":"gosta-berlings-saga-selma-lagerlof-9780648023357","title":"Gosta Berling's Saga","description":"\u003cp\u003eG sta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the drink, torn by conflicting aims -- the charm and deceit, love and laziness in him fighting for supremacy. He teams together with a group of sometimes dissolute, often well-meaning freemen of their district to evict the seemingly mad owner of a great rambling house at the centre of its own semi-feudal estate, Ekeby. This group call themselves the cavaliers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her telling of what happens next, Lagerl f creates a strange fusion between the realism of authors like Ibsen and Strindberg and the mythic force of the Scandinavian sagas. G sta's great loves, his enemies, those to whom he teaches lessons about life, either intentionally or accidentally, and others whose stories he has only a small part in, all start up from the page into a strange, elemental clarity, creating a sprawling mosaic of romance and realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first novel from the deeply original mind of the 1909 Nobel Prize winner weaves a balance between everyday rural reality and underlying dreams and fable to create a patchwork of extraordinary complexity and looming fascination, in which the reader can detect the author's passion for the stories of her country, and her sceptical warmth for the troubled human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Selma Lagerlof\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0648023354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780648023357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Walmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.34d","brand":"Selma Lagerlof","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920415326463,"sku":"9780648023357","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3bf2150f-9863-45a8-8537-f0c4da399777.jpg?v=1680815252","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gosta-berlings-saga-selma-lagerlof-9780648023357","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}