by Selma Lagerlof (Author), Velma Swanston Howard (Translator)

"Say, Jan, have you never cared so much for somebody that your heart has been set athrobbing because of her?" asked the midwife. Jan could not deny that it had.

The novel was a success with critics and readers, newspaper reviewers said the novel was at the same level as Lagerlöf's earlier novels Gösta Berling's Saga and the first part of Jerusalem.