Word: marbacka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka, 1924) will be well advised not to miss this second. Author Lagerlöf's world is a settled, mildly prosperous land whose natives bother their heads more about the price of eggs than the noble army of martyrs. On the modest but hereditary family estate of Marbacka, Selma...
...Marbacka is still in good Lagerlöf hands. Old lady Selma Lagerlöf spends her summers there, in the modernized manor house (see cut), oversees the cultivation of its 140 acres, the welfare of its 53 tenants...
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