
Gunvor has spent her childhood under the watchful eye of a stern yet loving grandmother, surrounded by wealth and the gentle bustle of a thriving trading town. When the season turns cold, the two embark on a long carriage ride toward the crumbling Bragevall estate, a place she has only heard whispered about in stories of faded grandeur.
In the shadow of the ancient stone halls lives Count Haqvin Brage, a frail young noble whose health hangs by a thread. Her grandmother believes the girl’s kindness and fortune could revive the once‑glorious house, and proposes a marriage that would bind the two families together. As Gunvor watches the landscape blur past the window, she wrestles with duty, curiosity, and a lingering fear of the unknown, setting the stage for a delicate dance between hope and obligation.
Language
sv
Duration
~6 hours (376K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Gun-Britt Carlsson, Eva Eriksson, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2019-04-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1869–1933
A Swedish novelist and translator whose stories reached a wide readership in the early 1900s, she wrote with a lively, accessible style and also helped bring international literature to Swedish readers.
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