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...HARVEST-Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran...
...ladies who can count their medals few can finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has 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...
...Sweden's Bjornsterne Bjornson" ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature as stated in footnote on p. 40, TIME, Nov. 19. Alfred Nobel's Sweden has to be satisfied with Literature Prize Winners Selma Lagerloöf (1909), Verner von Heidenstam (1916) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt...
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes 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...
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...