Charlotte Löwensköld (Annotated)

Charlotte Löwensköld continues Selma Lagerlöf's Löwensköld cycle, turning from the haunted legacy of The Löwensköld Ring to the moral and emotional consequences borne by a later generation. Set in nineteenth-century Värmland, the novel traces Charlotte's attachment to the severe young clergyman Karl-Artur Ekenstedt, whose religious absolutism and pride distort both love and duty. Lagerlöf's prose ...