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New Release: Selma Lagerlöf’s “Charlotte Löwensköld”

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Norvik Press is pleased to announce the publication of our second instalment to Selma Lagerlöf’s Ring Trilogy, the classic novel, Charlotte Löwensköld. Translated by Linda Schenck with a preface by our Selma Lagerlöf in English Series editor, Helena Forsås-Scott and a translator’s afterword. 290 pages (paperback).

A curse rests on the Löwensköld family, as narrated in the first instalment of Lagerlöf’s Ring TrilogyThe Löwensköld Ring.

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Charlotte Löwensköld is the tale of the following generations, a story of psychological insight and social commentary, and of the complexities of a mother-son relationship. Charlotte is in love with Karl-Arthur – both have some Löwensköld blood. Their young love is ill fated; each goes on to marry another.

How we make our life ‘choices’ and what evil forces can be at play around us is beautifully and ironically depicted by Selma Lagerlöf, who was in her sixties when she wrote this tour de force with the lightest imaginable touch.

Selma Lagerlöf was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909.

Literary agent, Lena Stjernström, recommends Charlotte Löwensköld as the best book to buy as a Christmas gift in 2014. (Svensk bokhandel 2014)

Available at all good bookstores.

The Ring Trilogy by Selma Lagerlöf
The Löwensköld Ring (Norvik Press, translated by Linda Schenck, 2011)
Charlotte Löwensköld (Norvik Press, translated by Linda Schenck, 2014)
Anna Svärd (Norvik Press, translated by Linda Schenck, 2015/16)

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Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden – The complete volume in hardback out now!

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Norvik Press is thrilled to announce our complete hardback version of Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden by Selma Lagerlöf is now in print! This wonderful new edition with 20 illustrations from Bea Bonafini is now hot off the presses.

Available in all good bookstores and to order online.

Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander’s back and is then carried the length of the country, learning both geography and good behaviour as he goes, has captivated adults and children alike, as well as inspiring film-makers and illustrators. The elegance of the present translation – the first full translation into English – is beautifully complemented by the illustrations specially created for the volume.

Selma Lagerlöf was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909.

cover‘A new version of Selma Lagerlöf’s classic tale reveals a powerful, lyrical work for children and adults.’
‘The personal is the geographical, the geographical becomes the personal, and Peter Graves’ superb, attentively faithful new rendering of Selma Lagerlöf’s masterpiece makes us understand this truth afresh.’

Paul Binding
Times Literary Supplement