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100 1 _aLagerlöf, Selma,
_d1858-1940
240 1 0 _aLiljecronas hem. English
245 1 0 _aLiliecrona's home
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-14
508 _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.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1914
653 _aYoung women -- Fiction
653 _aLove stories
653 _aDomestic fiction
653 _aHousehold employees -- Fiction
653 _aStepmothers -- Fiction
653 _aSwedish fiction -- Translations into English
653 _aFamilies of clergy -- Fiction
700 1 _aBarwell, Anna
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/liliecronashomen00lageiala/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76681
999 _c117406
_d117406