Project Gutenberg 2025-08-14 Public domain in the USA. 1151 Lagerlöf, Selma 1858 1940 Lagerlof, Selma Lagerlöf, Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerloef, Selma Barwell, Anna Liljecronas hem. English Liliecrona's home $aNew York :$bE. P. Dutton & Company, $c1914. Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Liliecrona's home" by Selma Lagerlöf is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in rural Värmland, it likely explores village life, the parsonage at Lövdala, and the tensions within a newly blended household. The story centers on the spirited young Eleonora (“Little-Maid” or Nora), the gentle pastor’s daughter Maia Lisa, the Pastor, and his capable but formidable new wife, mixing folklore, domestic drama, and nature’s force. The opening of the novel begins with a ferocious Christmas storm that upends the district and threatens to thwart Little-Maid’s longed-for journey to a family feast. Resourceful and stubborn, she ultimately sails across the ice on makeshift pine “sleds” with her younger brother, catching the eye of the Svartsjö Pastor’s new wife, who promptly takes her into service at Lövdala. There, Nora wakes to a kitchen full of spinning wheels, witnesses the stepmother’s harsh treatment of Maia Lisa and the servants’ quiet resistance, and hears Maia Lisa’s poetic lesson about the vanished “Black Lake” that shaped the valley. In night-time confidences, Maia Lisa retells her family’s recent upheaval as a Snow-White parable: how the austere, competent Mamsell Vabitz entered as housekeeper, married the Pastor, and imposed strict order—illustrated by vivid household episodes (a mischievous goat, guarded orchards, and sold apples)—leaving Maia Lisa struggling to keep her father’s affection and the home’s old warmth alive. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/liliecronashomen00lageiala/page/n7/mode/2up 20221031065857lagerlf 1914 US Reading ease score: 85.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Young women -- Fiction Love stories Domestic fiction Household employees -- Fiction Stepmothers -- Fiction Swedish fiction -- Translations into English Families of clergy -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels 434805 2025-08-14T00:00:10.114034 text/html 409729 2025-08-13T22:40:11 text/html 667045 2025-08-14T00:00:27.080954 application/epub+zip 663852 2025-08-14T00:00:17.672999 application/epub+zip 376417 2025-08-14T00:00:12.599064 application/epub+zip 1427322 2025-08-14T00:00:35.221929 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1152515 2025-08-14T00:00:26.419983 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 397930 2025-08-14T00:00:09.377057 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 378004 2025-08-13T22:40:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 5356 2025-08-14T00:00:35.371910 application/rdf+xml 11181 2025-08-14T00:00:17.093010 image/jpeg 1562 2025-08-14T00:00:16.985996 image/jpeg 1047980 2025-08-14T00:00:10.163107 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia sv.wikipedia fi.wikipedia