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Mårbacka

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The author recalls life at her ancestral country estate through interconnected vignettes that blend childhood memories, household portraits, and local legends. Episodes range from intimate nursery scenes and the habits of domestic staff to tales told by an elderly housekeeper and anecdotes about neighbors. Close attention to the old house, its rooms and renovations, gardens, seasonal labors, and village festivities creates a textured sense of place, while reflective passages touch on memory, inheritance, and the ties that bind family to land. The overall effect is a mosaic of domestic detail and folkloric anecdote conveying rural atmosphere and continuity.

MÅRBACKA

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(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach)
THE EMPEROR OF PORTUGALLIA
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)
THE HOLY CITY, Jerusalem II
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach)
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(Trans. from Swedish by Anna Barwell)
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(Trans. from Swedish by W. Worster, M. A.)
MÅRBACKA
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)