03107cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324500150014726400510016230000470021333600260026033700260028633800360031250000950034850000310044350801140047452018740058853400590246265300500252165300330257165300540260470000370265885600430269599900190273876129UtSlPG20260610134748.0mcr n260607r20251923utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7anl2iso639-1 4aPT1 aLagerlöf, Selma,d1858-194010aMårbacka 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aAppears to be a translation of selected chapters from recollections of the author's youth.  aRelease date is 2025-05-20  aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg  aMårbacka by Selma Lagerlöf is a memoir written in the early 20th century. It offers affectionate, clear-eyed recollections of childhood on a Swedish estate, blending domestic life with local lore and community history. The focus is the young Selma, her stern but devoted nurse Back-Kajsa, her parents (notably her lively father, a lieutenant), her grandmother, and her siblings, with scenes of illness, travel, and village ties shaping a warm portrait of place and people.  The opening of Mårbacka sketches vivid episodes: a formidable nurse, Back-Kajsa, proves dutiful but unplayful until Selma suddenly cannot walk, which draws out the woman’s deep tenderness. Selma’s siblings bridle at the attention her illness commands, a parade of doctors and folk healers fails, and a “high guest” turns out to be a newborn sister, shifting the household’s focus and discipline. The family travels via dangerous hills and a heaving steamer toward the west coast, where summer in Strömstad brings seaside freedom, local friendships, and a brush with superstition on the forbidding “grey island.” Visiting a captain’s home and then his ship, Selma sees a treasured “paradise bird” and, to everyone’s joy, unexpectedly finds she can walk again—others credit the baths, while she quietly wonders. A parting bookmark from a baker’s daughters becomes a talisman that fixes memories of the journey and the sight of home on return. The narrative then turns to an earlier family sorrow: starving landwehrmen are sheltered at Mårbacka, scarlet fever follows, two small children die, and the grandmother wrestles with guilt until her husband’s steadfast comfort restores her. Finally, the text lingers over the estate’s ancient stone buildings and an old servant due a medal, before the fragment breaks. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cAmsterdam: H. J. W. Becht, 1923  aAuthors, Swedish -- 19th century -- Biography  aLagerlöf, Selma, 1858-1940  aSweden -- Social life and customs -- 19th century1 aMeijboom, Margaretha,d1856-192740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76129  c116854d116854