The Girl from the Marsh Croft (novella)

The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Author Selma Lagerlöf
Original title Tösen från Stormyrtorpet
Translator Velma Swanston Howard
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Publisher Bonniers
Publication date
 1908
Published in English
 1910
Pages 86

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Swedish: Tösen från Stormyrtorpet) is a 1908 novella by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. The story has been adapted numerous times for film.

Publication

The story was originally featured in the collection En saga om en saga och andra sagor, published through Bonniers in 1908. The whole collection was published in English as The Girl from the Marsh Croft in 1910, translated by Velma Swanston Howard.[1] The story was republished in Sweden in 1917 in its own volume.

Adaptations

Seven film adaptations exist. The first was a 1917 adaptation by Victor Sjöström, known as The Lass from the Stormy Croft, which was a vital early part of what is known as the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Cinema. The other versions are a German and a Turkish in 1935, a Finnish in 1940, another Swedish in 1947, a Danish in 1952 and another German in 1958.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Selma Lagerlöf - Bibliography". nobelprize.org. Nobel Media. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
  2. ↑ "Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917): Kommentar". Swedish Film Database (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
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