03019cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324000290014724500220017626400510019830000470024933600260029633700260032233800360034850000310038450802090041552015530062453400660217765300270224365300170227065300210228765300350230865300270234365300490237065300340241970000180245385600760247185600430254799900190259076681UtSlPG20260610134756.0mcr n260607r20251914utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPT1 aLagerlöf, Selma,d1858-194010aLiljecronas hem. English10aLiliecrona's home 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-08-14  aTim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  a"Liliecrona's home" by Selma Lagerlöf is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in rural Värmland, it likely explores village life, the parsonage at Lövdala, and the tensions within a newly blended household. The story centers on the spirited young Eleonora (“Little-Maid” or Nora), the gentle pastor’s daughter Maia Lisa, the Pastor, and his capable but formidable new wife, mixing folklore, domestic drama, and nature’s force.  The opening of the novel begins with a ferocious Christmas storm that upends the district and threatens to thwart Little-Maid’s longed-for journey to a family feast. Resourceful and stubborn, she ultimately sails across the ice on makeshift pine “sleds” with her younger brother, catching the eye of the Svartsjö Pastor’s new wife, who promptly takes her into service at Lövdala. There, Nora wakes to a kitchen full of spinning wheels, witnesses the stepmother’s harsh treatment of Maia Lisa and the servants’ quiet resistance, and hears Maia Lisa’s poetic lesson about the vanished “Black Lake” that shaped the valley. In night-time confidences, Maia Lisa retells her family’s recent upheaval as a Snow-White parable: how the austere, competent Mamsell Vabitz entered as housekeeper, married the Pastor, and imposed strict order—illustrated by vivid household episodes (a mischievous goat, guarded orchards, and sold apples)—leaving Maia Lisa struggling to keep her father’s affection and the home’s old warmth alive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1914  aYoung women -- Fiction  aLove stories  aDomestic fiction  aHousehold employees -- Fiction  aStepmothers -- Fiction  aSwedish fiction -- Translations into English  aFamilies of clergy -- Fiction1 aBarwell, Anna4 uhttps://archive.org/details/liliecronashomen00lageiala/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76681  c117406d117406