Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof, Fiction, Historical, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

Selma Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1900.

"Jerusalem begins with the history of a wealthy and powerful farmer family, the Ingmarssons of Ingmar Farm, and develops to include the whole parish life with its varied farmer types, its pastor, schoolmaster, shopkeeper, and innkeeper. The romance portrays the religious revival introduced by a practical mystic from Chicago which leads many families to sell their ancestral homesteads and--in the last chapter of this volume--to emigrate in a body to the Holy Land." -- Henry Goddard Leach

Author: Selma Lagerlof
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781598189810

About the Author
Lagerlof, Selma: - "Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858 - 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and is best remembered for her children's book The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Lagerlof was asked by the National Teacher's Association in 1902 to write a geography book for children. She interestingly combined informative facts of Sweden's geography with a boy named Nils Holgersson. When the boy got in trouble, he traveled to many different provinces, allowing children to learn about Sweden while staying interested."