New York, NY — May 28, 2026 — Carlini Classics announces a new series of editions devoted to Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), the Swedish novelist whose imagination carried her from a rural estate in Värmland to the Nobel Prize in Literature and a historic seat in the Swedish Academy. The first woman to receive the Nobel in 1909 and the first woman elected to the Academy in 1914, Lagerlöf transformed the landscapes, legends, and peasant life of her native region into fiction that reshaped modern storytelling.
The series highlights the breadth of her work, from early masterpieces to later autobiographical and experimental books. Featured titles include The Story of Gösta Berling, Jerusalem, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The Emperor of Portugallia, and The Treasure, alongside Mårbacka, From a Swedish Homestead, The Miracles of Antichrist, Invisible Links, and The Girl from Marsh Croft. Together, these volumes trace a career that moves with ease between saga and realism, children’s adventure and spiritual drama, intimate family memory and sweeping historical vision.
Lagerlöf’s debut, The Story of Gösta Berling, announced a new voice in Swedish literature, blending romance, myth, and local legend in a narrative rooted in Värmland’s manors and forests. Jerusalem follows a group of Swedish farmers drawn by faith to a colony in the Holy Land, while The Wonderful Adventures of Nils reimagines the Swedish countryside through the eyes of a boy carried across the nation on the back of a wild goose. In The Emperor of Portugallia and The Treasure, Lagerlöf explores love, loss, delusion, and redemption with a psychological depth that has kept these novels in print and on screen for more than a century.
The covers for this new Carlini Classics series were designed by Farashta Rezai, a graphic design student at George Mason University in Virginia. Each volume pairs a deep charcoal background with a single bright, emblematic silhouette: a rocking horse for Mårbacka, a simple house for The Story of Gösta Berling, a boy astride a goose for The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, stalks of grain for From a Swedish Homestead, a dove-like figure for The Miracles of Antichrist, a looping red cord for Invisible Links, a keyhole plate for The Treasure, a crowned profile for The Emperor of Portugallia, and a luminous pink portrait for The Girl from Marsh Croft. The minimalist symbols and saturated colors create a cohesive, contemporary visual language that echoes Lagerlöf’s blend of folklore clarity and emotional depth.
“Selma Lagerlöf’s novels feel like stories told by the fire on a winter night—mysterious and enchanted, yet utterly grounded in real human longing,” said Charles Carlini, founder of Casa Carlini. “With this series, we want readers to encounter not just a Nobel laureate on a syllabus, but a storyteller whose work still feels startlingly alive.”
More than historical curiosities, Lagerlöf’s books continue to speak to questions of home, belonging, belief, and the invisible ties that bind people to one another and to the places they love. These new Carlini Classics editions invite both long-time admirers and first-time readers to step back into the world of Mårbacka and follow her imagination outward to the wider world.
The Selma Lagerlöf series from Carlini Classics is available now through Casa Carlini, major booksellers, and Amazon.
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