The Saga of Gösta Berling (Gösta Berlings saga)

The true first edition is the original Swedish "Gösta Berlings saga," Frithiof Hellberg, Stockholm, 1891, in two parts — this is what serious Lagerlöf collectors pursue. The first English rendering is Lillie Tudeer's abridged translation, "Gösta Berling's Saga" (Chapman & Hall, London); sources conflict on its date, with Wikipedia giving 1894 and scholarly/library records (Encyclopedia.com / Dictionary of Literary Biography) giving Chapman & Hall, 1898 — treat the exact year as unsettled. A fuller translation by Pauline Bancroft Flach, "The Story of Gösta Berling," appeared in 1898 (Gay & Bird, London; Little, Brown, Boston). The Tudeer text was abridged; the American-Scandinavian Foundation reissued it in 1918 (New York; London: Humphrey Milford/OUP) with eight previously omitted chapters restored.