Helga, a poor girl from a croft on the edge of the marsh, has borne a child to a married man, and at the court hearing she does something no one expects. Her honesty touches young Gudmund, a farmer’s son about to marry well. The volume adds The Silver Mine, The Legend of the Christmas Rose and the author’s own account of how Gösta Berling came to be written.
Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, at her most humane. Download the free EPUB.