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...remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains a concentratedly salty, not a feebly sour human being...
...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...
...Ring of the Löwenskölds (pronounced "Levenskelds") is a trilogy, but its three novels are all self-contained. The first two-The General's Ring and Charlotte Löwensköld-have already been published; the new one, Anna Svärd, finishes the story of Karl Arthur Ekenstedt and Charlotte, the girl he was too proud to marry...
...much help. Thea kept things on a spiritual plane, which baffled Anna considerably. Then Karl Arthur heard a call to resign his ministry and go to preach in the byways. Thea left her husband and went with him. Years later it was wise Charlotte Löwensköld who rescued Karl Arthur from the woman who was dragging him down, persuaded him to go to Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks to Selma Lagerlöf you feel...
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