The Story of Gösta Berling

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Selma Lagerlöf

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Selma Lagerlof’s debut swept away the sober realism of its day and announced a wholly original voice. Its hero, Gosta Berling, is a brilliant young Lutheran minister defrocked for drunkenness and rescued from despair by the formidable mistress of Ekeby manor. There he joins a company of penniless, high-spirited cavaliers who, for one wild year, seize control of the great estate on the shores of Lake Fryken. Set in the Varmland of the 1820s, the book unfolds as a chain of loosely linked adventures brimming with romance, folklore, reckless feasting, and flashes of the supernatural. Passionate and headlong, it made Lagerlof’s name and remains a landmark of Swedish literature. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940) was a Swedish writer and teacher whose storytelling blended folklore, faith, and vivid landscape. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, she remains one of Sweden’s most cherished authors, known best for this book and Gosta Berling’s Saga.

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The Story of Gösta Berling (1898) is a public domain work.

#	Chapter	Length
1	01 – Introduction I - The Priest	21:15
2	02 – Introduction II - The Beggar	30:46
3	03 - Part I Chapter I -The Landscape	10:32
4	04 - Part I Chapter II - Christmas Eve	31:45
5	05 - Part I Chapter III - Christmas Day	28:07
6	06 - Part I Chapter IV - Gösta Berling, Poet	30:44
7	07 - Part I Chapter V - La Cachucha	10:25
8	08 - Part I Chapter VI - The Ball at Ekeby	45:32
9	09 - Part I Chapter VII - The Old Vehicles	31:06
10	10 - Part I Chapter VIII - The Great Bear in Gurlitta Cliff	34:37
11	11 - Part I Chapter IX - The Auction at Björne	1:06:50
12	12 - Part I Chapter X - The Young Countess	57:08
13	13 - Part I Chapter XI - Ghost-Stories	31:30
14	14 - Part I Chapter XII -Ebba Dohna's Story	45:44
15	15 - Part I Chapter XIII - Mamselle Marie	22:41
16	16 - Part II Chapter I -Cousin Christopher	13:25
17	17 - Part II Chapter II -The Paths of Life	30:16
18	18 - Part II Chapter III - Penitence	24:50
19	19 - Part II Chapter IV - The Iron from Ekeby	22:39
20	20 - Part II Chapter V -Lilliecrona's Home	13:49
21	21 - Part II Chapter VI - The Witch of Dovre	11:53
22	22 - Part II Chapter VII - Midsummer	9:40
23	23 - Part II Chapter VIII - Madame Musica	13:23
24	24 - Part II Chapter IX - The Broby Clergyman	13:13
25	25 - Part II Chapter X - Patron Julius	18:04
26	26 - Part II Chapter XI - The Plaster Saints	15:43
27	27 - Part II Chapter XII - God's Wayfarer	24:48
28	28 - Part II Chapter XIII - The Churchyard	9:15
29	29 - Part II Chapter XIV - Old Songs	23:17
30	30 - Part II Chapter XV - Death, the Deliverer	14:32
31	31 - Part II Chapter XVI - The Drought	24:18
32	32 - Part II Chapter XVII - The Child's Mother	18:48
33	33 - Part II Chapter XVIII - Amor vincit Omnia	14:06
34	34 - Part II Chapter XIX - The Broom-Girl	27:02
35	35 - Part II Chapter XX - Kevenhüller	22:27
36	36 - Part II Chapter XXI - The Broby Fair	16:48
37	37 - Part II Chapter XXII - The Forest Cottage	34:30
38	38 - Part II Chapter XXIII - Margareta Celsing	34:32