Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) grew up at Mårbacka, a family estate in Värmland, Sweden, and worked as a schoolteacher before her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga (1891), made her famous. She wrote The Wonderful Adventures of Nils for Swedish schoolchildren, became in 1909 the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, and in 1914 the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy.
“It is not revealed by the light of lamps or candles, and it does not depend upon sun and moon; but that which is needful is, that we have such eyes as can see God’s glory.”
Christ Legends is a book of eleven stories in which the Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf retells and invents legends about the life of Jesus, from the night of His birth to the Crucifixion and after. Some come from old Christian tradition, some from folk tales, and some are her own; all are told in a simple, warm voice suited to reading aloud.
