Literature

Banquet speech

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1953, the speech was read by Lady Churchill «The Nobel Prize in Literature is an honour for me alike unique and unexpected and I grieve that my duties have not allowed me to receive it…

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Selected Works The Story of the Malakand Field Force : An Episode of Frontier War. – Longmans, Green, 1898 The River War : An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. – 2 vol. – Longmans, Green, 1899 Savrola : a Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. – Longmans, Green, 1900 Lord Randolph Churchill.…

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Works in Swedish Människor. – Stockholm : Fram, 1912 Ordkonst och bildkonst : om modärn skönlitteraturs dekadans : om den modärna konstens vitalitet. – Stockholm : Bröderna Lagerströms, 1913 Två sagor om livet. – Stockholm : Fram, 1913 Motiv. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1914 Järn och människor. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1915 Ångest. – Stockholm…

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Selected works in Italian Nell’azzurro. – Milano : Trevisani, 1890 Fior di Sardegna. – Roma : Perino, 1891 La regina delle tenebre. – Torino : Orsiglia, 1892 Anime oneste. – Milano : Cogliati, 1893 Racconti sardi. – Sassari : Dessí, 1894 Tradizioni popolari di Nuoro in Sardegna. – Roma : Forzani & Senato, 1894 La…

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Prose

While the East Wind Blows (Mentre soffia il levante) A short story by Grazia Deledda From the collection I giuochi della vita (1905) Translated by Anders Hallengren A ccording to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end…

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Selected works German Social Democracy. – London : Longmans, Green, 1896 An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1897 A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz : With an Appendix of Leading Passages. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1900. – Republ. as The Philosophy of Leibniz. –…

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  Works in English The Marble Faun. – Boston : Four Seas, 1924 Soldiers’ Pay. – New York : Boni & Liveright, 1926 Mosquitoes. – New York : Boni & Liveright, 1927 Sartoris. – New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1929. – Original, uncut version edited by Douglas Day as Flags in the Dust. – New…

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