The Story of Gösta Berling

by Selma Lagerlöf

Stockholm, May, 1898.

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CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
[INTRODUCTION:]
I	The Priest	[1]
II	The Beggar	[12]
[PART I]
I	The Landscape	[29]
II	Christmas Eve	[34]
III	Christmas Day	[49]
IV	Gösta Berling, Poet	[63]
V	La Cachucha	[79]
VI	The Ball at Ekeby	[84]
VII	The Old Vehicles	[106]
VIII	The Great Bear in Gurlitta Cliff	[122]
IX	The Auction at Björne	[138]
X	The Young Countess	[170]
XI	Ghost-Stories	[199]
XII	Ebba Dohna’s Story	[214]
XIII	Mamselle Marie	[236]
[PART II]
I	Cousin Christopher	[247]
II	The Paths of Life	[253]
III	Penitence	[268]
IV	The Iron from Ekeby	[280]
V	Lilliecrona’s Home	[291]
VI	The Witch of Dovre	[298]
VII	Midsummer	[304]
VIII	Madame Musica	[309]
IX	The Broby Clergyman	[315]
X	Patron Julius	[321]
XI	The Plaster Saints	[329]
XII	God’s Wayfarer	[337]
XIII	The Churchyard	[350]
XIV	Old Songs	[355]
XV	Death, the Deliverer	[367]
XVI	The Drought	[374]
XVII	The Child’s Mother	[386]
XVIII	Amor vincit Omnia	[396]
XIX	The Broom-Girl	[403]
XX	Kevenhüller	[417]
XXI	The Broby Fair	[429]
XXII	The Forest Cottage	[438]
XXIII	Margareta Celsing	[456]

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The Story of Gösta Berling

INTRODUCTION