Gösta Berlings saga

The Saga of Gösta Berling

Author

Selma Lagerlöf

Language

Swedish

Year

1891

Country

Sweden

Genre

Novel

female authormodern europenobel prizescandinaviamodern novels

0

📷1 photo

Gösta Berling's Saga, also known as The Story of Gösta Berling or The Saga of Gösta Berling, is the debut novel of Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1891. It was made into a 1924 silent film directed by Mauritz Stiller starring Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson and Gerda Lundequist. A 1925 opera I cavalieri di Ekebù by Riccardo Zandonai was also based on it.