LIBROS DEL AUTOR: linda schenck

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  • A Kaleidoscope of Stories
    Linda Schenck / Selma Lagerlöf / Sarah Death
    This new addition to Norvik Press’s well-established ’Lagerlöf in English’ series turns the spotlight on the power of short stories. The volume contains a carefully chosen selection of Lagerlöf’s most important stories covering a range of themes, genres and periods of her career, translated by our prize-winning trio of Lagerlöf translators, Linda Schenck, Peter Graves and Sarah...
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    18,27 €

  • Witches’ Rings
    Ekman Kerstin / Linda Schenck
    'Stories,' the narrator of Witches’ Rings tells us, 'are wiser than we, and more mindful, and slowly they change us.' Kerstin Ekman’s stories are deeply committed to this very kind of gradual but inevitable change. Witches’ Rings portrays the history of a rural society in a new light, tracing its development through the lives of working class women and children rather than auth...
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    22,36 €

  • City of Light
    Kerstin Ekman / Linda Schenck
    Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the Swedish town in which she grew up in order to sell the old house she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house, alone with her memories of her father, an idiosyncratic character whom only she truly understood. She is also nervously awaiting t...
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    21,73 €

  • The Spring
    Kerstin Ekman / Linda Schenck
    Kerstin Ekman’s novel Blackwater took the world by storm in 1993 and has now been translated into over twenty-five languages. But her reputation as one of Sweden’s best-known and most successful authors rests just as securely upon the series of four novels she wrote between 1974 and 1983, which are based on the author’s childhood home town of Katrineholm some forty miles southw...
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    20,35 €

  • Banished
    Selma Lagerlöf / Linda Schenck
     What happens to an individual who is rejected by society? What happens to a society that eventually realises the living are more important than the dead, and that it is suffering a crisis of values and priorities? What does war do to us and to our outlook on the world? Selma Lagerlöf struggled with these issues throughout World War I and experienced a mental block in writing a...
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    19,67 €

  • Anna Svärd
    Selma Lagerlof / Linda Schenck
    The curse on the Löwensköld family comes to fruition in unexpected ways in this final volume of the Löwensköld cycle. Anna Svärd is also very much a novel of women’s struggle toward finding fulfillment. The Löwensköld Ring resonates with ’beggars cannot be choosers’ in relation to what a poor woman can expect in life, while Charlotte Löwensköld moves toward women having some ch...
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    19,38 €

  • Charlotte Löwensköld
    Selma Lagerlof / Linda Schenck
    A curse rests on the Löwensköld family, as narrated in The LöwensköldRing. Charlotte Löwensköld is the tale of the following generations, a storyof psychological insight and social commentary, and of the complexitiesof a mother-son relationship. Charlotte is in love with Karl-Arthur - bothhave some Löwensköld blood. Their young love is ill fated; each goes on tomarry another. H...
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    17,73 €

  • The Lowenskold Ring
    Selma Lagerlof / Linda Schenck
    The Löwensköld Ring (1925) is the first volume of the trilogy considered to have been Selma Lagerlöf’s last work of prose fiction. Set in the Swedish province of Värmland in the eighteenth century, the narrative traces the consequences of the theft of General Löwensköld’s ring from his coffin, and develops into a disturbing tale of revenge from beyond the grave. It is also a t...
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    15,46 €