Catalog
Herr Arnes penningar
by Selma Lagerlöf
🦇Gothic~180 pages
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On a frozen night in sixteenth-century Bohuslän, three mercenaries break into the parsonage of the wealthy Herr Arne, murder the household and vanish with a chest of silver. One girl survives, and the dead do not stay quiet: the sea itself freezes over, trapping the ship that should carry the killers to safety, while a ghost walks beside the living. Lagerlöf tells this story of greed, guilt and impossible love with the cold clarity of a folk ballad, in scenes that feel painted rather than written. Brief, atmospheric and deeply moving, it lingers long after the last page.
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