{"product_id":"the-saga-of-gosta-berling-penguin-classics-9780143105909","title":"The Saga of Gosta Berling Penguin Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first new English translation in more than one hundred years of the Swedish \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. \u003ci\u003eThe Saga of Gösta Berling\u003c\/i\u003e is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo into stardom. A defrocked minister, Gösta Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate that also houses and assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars. His defiant and poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who fall under his spell in this sweeping historical epic set against the backdrop of the magnificent wintry beauty of rural Sweden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best wo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong [women novelists] of great talent or genius, none, in my opinion, is to be placed higher than Selma Lagerlof. -- Marguerite Yourcenar","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732519924055,"sku":"9780143105909","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-saga-of-gosta-berling-penguin-classics-9780143105909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}