Charlotte Löwensköld

Charlotte Löwensköld, the second volume in Selma Lagerlöf's Löwensköld cycle, turns from family legend and Gothic inheritance toward the intricate moral comedy of courtship, pride, and self-deception. Set in nineteenth-century Sweden, the novel follows Charlotte's entanglement with the idealistic clergyman Karl-Artur Ekenstedt, whose spiritual vanity imperils both love and judgment. Lagerlöf's style is lucid, ironic, and deceptively simple, blending realist social observation with the narrative ...