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Written in 1891 by a future Nobel Prize winner in Literature, this book held my interest well enough yet still left me a bit let down. Less of a novel that a collection of linked short stories, we live through a year in the life of defrocked preacher Gosta Berling and his cronies, nearby villagers and other characters in this farming region of Sweden. Until the very end, it is hard to like Gosta, especially for his treatment of women. And sometimes the actions by various characters seem to have absolutely no rhyme or reason behind them. Lagerlof is a fine writer and some of her stories are enjoyable, but the complete book just didn't work for me.