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Translated by Velma Swanston Howard

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Title: Jerusalem

Author: Selma Lagerloef

Translator: Velma Swanston Howard

Release Date: May 16, 2005 [eBook #15837]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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JERUSALEM

A Novel

From the Swedish of

SELMA LAGERLOEF

Translated by VELMA SWANSTON HOWARD

With an Introduction by

HENRY GODDARD LEACH

CONTENTS

Introduction

BOOK ONE

The Ingmarssons

BOOK TWO

At the Schoolmaster's
"And They Saw Heaven Open"
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
In Zion
The Wild Hunt
Hellgum
The New Way

BOOK THREE

The Loss of "L'Univers"
Hellgum's Letter
The Big Log
The Ingmar Farm
Hoek Matts Ericsson
The Auction
Gertrude
The Dean's Widow
The Departure of the Pilgrims

INTRODUCTION

As yet the only woman winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the
prize awarded to Kipling, Maeterlinck, and Hauptmann, is the
Swedish author of this book, "Jerusalem." The Swedish Academy, in
recognizing Miss Selma Lagerloef, declared that they did so "for
reason of the noble idealism, the wealth of imagination, the
soulful quality of style, which characterize her works." Five years
later, in 1914, that august body elected Doctor Lagerloef into their
fellowship, and she is thus the only woman among those eighteen
"immortals."

What is the secret of the power that has made Miss Lagerloef an
author acknowledged not alone as a classic in the schools but also
as the most popular and generally beloved writer in Scandinavia?
She entered Swedish literature at a period when the cold gray star
of realism was in the ascendant, when the trenchant pen of
Strindberg had swept away the cobwebs of unreality, and people were
accustomed to plays and novels almost brutal in their frankness.
Wrapped in the mantle of a latter-day romanticism, her soul filled
with idealism, on the one hand she transformed the crisp
actualities of human experience by throwing about them the glamour
o