Gösta Berling, a brilliant, drunken young priest dismissed from his parish, finds refuge at Ekeby, where a band of reckless pensioner-cavaliers live off the bounty of the Major’s wife. Over one wild year in Värmland, among iron works, long lakes and dark forests, he loves and loses several women while legend and real life blur together.
The debut novel that made Lagerlöf famous; in 1909 she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Download the free EPUB.