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The Story of Gösta Berling

by Selma LAGERLÖF (1858 - 1940)

16 - Part II Chapter I -Cousin Christopher

"The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence. The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of the 19th Century century. Värmland is a lonely tract in the southern part of Sweden, and has retained many of its old customs, while mining is the principal industry of its sparse population. It consists of great stretches of forest, sloping down to long, narrow lakes, connected by rivers. Miss Lagerlöf has grown up in the midst of the wild legends of her country, and, deeply imbued with their spirit, interprets them with a living force all her own. (Summary from the foreword by Pauline Bancroft Flach)

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Listen next episodes of The Story of Gösta Berling:
17 - Part II Chapter II -The Paths of Life , 18 - Part II Chapter III - Penitence , 19 - Part II Chapter IV - The Iron from Ekeby , 20 - Part II Chapter V -Lilliecrona's Home , 21 - Part II Chapter VI - The Witch of Dovre , 22 - Part II Chapter VII - Midsummer , 23 - Part II Chapter VIII - Madame Musica , 24 - Part II Chapter IX - The Broby Clergyman , 25 - Part II Chapter X - Patron Julius , 26 - Part II Chapter XI - The Plaster Saints , 27 - Part II Chapter XII - God's Wayfarer , 28 - Part II Chapter XIII - The Churchyard , 29 - Part II Chapter XIV - Old Songs , 30 - Part II Chapter XV - Death, the Deliverer , 31 - Part II Chapter XVI - The Drought , 32 - Part II Chapter XVII - The Child's Mother , 33 - Part II Chapter XVIII - Amor vincit Omnia , 34 - Part II Chapter XIX - The Broom-Girl , 35 - Part II Chapter XX - Kevenhüller , 36 - Part II Chapter XXI - The Broby Fair , 37 - Part II Chapter XXII - The Forest Cottage , 38 - Part II Chapter XXIII - Margareta Celsing