Short story, good structure, strong start, but weak and sugar sweet end. About a fallen girl; naturalistic flavour.

A short tale about love and morals in a rural community in 19th cenutry Sweden. It centers around Helga, a young woman who became an outsider because her employer got her pregnant. She still drops charges against him in court to prevent him from swearing a wrong oath which impresses Gudmund, a young

Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel for literature but, in my opinion, she was much better than anyone chosen up to that point. That included such notables as Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Rudyard Kipling and Henryk Sienkiewicz. This is a brilliant collection of short stories written i

Сама «Морбакка» оставила меня, скорее, равнодушной (кроме нескольких рассказов), а вот «Девочку из Морбакки» я полюбила от всей души. Здесь меньше преданий о старине, записанных со слов бабок и нянек, а больше повседневного быта, увиденного глазами ребенка, а я такое люблю. И дневник 14-летней Сельм

Back in January I came across the Swedish movie Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917; vt Girl from Stormy Croft; vt The Lass from Stormy Croft) on the excellent website Movies from the Silent Era and, although I've yet to get round to watching the movie, I was interested enough by what I read about it the