Christ Legends (Annotated)

Christ Legends gathers Selma Lagerlöf's retellings of sacred stories surrounding the life of Christ, transforming biblical and apocryphal material into luminous moral parables. Written in a deceptively simple, folkloric style, the collection blends Christian devotion with the cadences of oral storytelling, Scandinavian legend, and nineteenth-century literary realism. Its episodes emphasize compass...