A story combining elements of Scandinavian legends and fairy tales with the ethical and moral tradition of Christianity, by one of Sweden's most distinguished writers - a Nobel Prize winner (the first woman to receive this award).
Värmlandia, a land picturesquely located amidst a waterfall, a lake, golden fields and thick forests at the foot of Mount Gurlity, where devils and witches were often guests. At the home of a rich lady major, in a beautiful manor house, live twelve swashbucklers. Legend has it that the majorovna kept the residents on standby for the services of the devil, and for the fortunes she received she made a promise to send him one soul every year. These hooligans, as they were called, spread drunkenness, debauchery and waste, but in essence they were good and noble people. However, the greatest of them was Gösta Berling - beautiful and brave, although he was also a fallen priest. Everyone also knew that Gösta had a body of iron, while his heart was completely unhardened, and that he could not look at a woman's fair hair, coiled around her fair forehead, and into her sparkling eyes without falling in love at once....
Published by Lower Silesia Publishing House, 1994.
Format 210 x 135 mm, 506 pages.
Elegant edition, bound in imitation leather, decorated with gilt.
