The Girl From the Marsh Croft

Selma Lagerlöf (1858 - 1940)
Translated by Velma Swanston Howard (1868 - 1937)

Readers of Miss Lagerlöf will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism.

This writer's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first successful work, "Gösta Berling."
How "The Story of Gösta Berling" grew, and the years required to perfect it, is told in the author's unique literary autobiography, "The Story of a Story," which is embodied in the present volume.

In "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" Miss Lagerlöf has courageously chosen a girl who had gone astray as the heroine of her love story, making her innate honesty and goodness the redemptive qualities which win for her the love of an honest man and the respect and esteem of all. (This novella is one of nine short stories included in this collection.)

To the kindness of the publishers of Good Housekeeping, I am indebted for permission to include "The Legend of the Christmas Rose" in this volume.

This book is translated and published with the sanction of the author, Selma Lagerlöf. - (Prefatory note from the etext)

Genre(s): Published 1900 onward

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter I Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:17:12
Play 02 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter II Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:27:52
Play 03 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter III Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:22:30
Play 04 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter IV Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:07:42
Play 05 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter V - Part 1 Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:19:51
Play 06 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter V - Part 2 Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:21:59
Play 07 The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter VI Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:15:57
Play 08 The Silver Mine Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:32:28
Play 09 The Airship - Part 1 Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:28:43
Play 10 The Airship - Part 2 Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:23:21
Play 11 The Wedding March Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:11:38
Play 12 The Musician Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:20:15
Play 13 The Legend of the Christmas Rose Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:39:32
Play 14 A Story from Jerusalem Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:20:53
Play 15 Why the Pope Lived to be so Old Algy Pug
00:27:35
Play 16 The Story of a Story Algy Pug
00:27:44