Books like The Story of Gösta Berling
A defrocked, drunken priest joins the band of cavaliers living off the mistress of a great Värmland estate, and their year of revels brings ruin and redemption to the district.
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Wanderers
An ageing writer takes to the road as a labourer in rural Norway, working on farms and estates, and falls under the spell of a captain's wife at one of them.
Charlotte Löwensköld
In 1830s Värmland, the lively Charlotte Löwensköld is engaged to her cousin Karl-Artur, a fiercely pious young clergyman, and one careless remark about money sets both their lives on a different course.
Jerusalem
A revival movement splits a farming parish in Dalarna, and a group of villagers sells their ancestral farms to follow its preacher to a religious colony in Jerusalem.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
Synnøve Solbakken
In a Norwegian mountain valley, Thorbjørn, a quarrelsome farmer's son, loves Synnøve, the gentle girl of the neighbouring farm, but her pious parents won't hear of a match until he learns to master his temper.
Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
Victoria
Johannes, the miller's son, has loved Victoria, the daughter of the manor, since childhood, and when he comes back a famous poet the gulf of class is still between them.
The Maid Silja
Silja, the last daughter of a ruined Finnish farming family, goes into service on farms and estates in the years around 1918, a young woman of quiet grace in hard times.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Noli Me Tángere
Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to Manila after seven years studying in Europe to find that his father has died in prison, and that the friars of his town are set against him.
Under the Glacier
A young emissary from the bishop is sent to a remote parish beneath Snæfellsjökull, where the pastor no longer holds services and strange guests gather for something no one will explain.
The Waters
On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.