item: #1 of 19
id: 10543
author: None
title: Norwegian Life An Account of Past and Contemporary Conditions and Progress in Norway and Sweden
date: None
words: 58214
flesch: 62
summary: Those who can not enjoy the opportunity of visiting rural Sweden will find in the suburbs of Stockholm, at the favorite resort and place of amusement of the common people, a perfect representation of Swedish country life. From the huts of the fishermen on the south coast of the Scandinavian peninsula to the camps of the Lapps in the frozen zone, every feature of Swedish country life is represented.
keywords: age; army; century; chapter; character; charles; children; christiania; church; city; countries; country; crown; day; denmark; europe; family; father; gods; government; gustavus; half; home; house; king; king oscar; kingdom; land; law; life; literature; little; love; man; members; men; months; music; national; new; norway; norwegian; number; oscar; people; period; place; power; present; prince; public; queen; right; royal; scandinavian; school; service; son; songs; state; stockholm; storthing; sweden; swedish; throne; time; union; united; war; women; work; world; years
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item: #2 of 19
id: 10935
author: Lagerlöf, Selma
title: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
date: None
words: 157055
flesch: 90
summary: He was separated from everything now; he could no longer play with other boys, he could not take charge of the farm after his parents were gone; and certainly no girl would think of marrying _him_. But it hadn't occurred to him before, that he was no longer the sort of boy the hens need fear.
keywords: air; akka; bear; big; birds; black; boy; children; city; country; day; dog; eagle; elk; eyes; farm; father; find; fly; forest; fox; gander; geese; good; goosey; gray; great; ground; head; help; home; house; human; ice; island; jarro; karr; know; lake; land; lay; left; let; little; look; morning; mother; mountain; night; open; people; place; rats; sea; smirre; thing; thought; thumbietot; time; trees; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; work
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item: #3 of 19
id: 12313
author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
title: Pictures of Sweden
date: None
words: 42712
flesch: 81
summary: through thy vaulted halls people now pass in the summer-time with cattle and domestic utensils; children and old men go to the solitary pasture where echo dwells, where the national song springs forth with the wild mountain flower! The ivy winds itself around old trees and stones--even to the withered trunk green leaves are lent.
keywords: church; cloister; dark; dead; deep; earth; eyes; fall; forest; garden; god; grass; green; head; heart; house; king; lake; land; life; light; like; look; man; men; new; past; place; red; road; rose; saw; sea; stone; sun; sweden; thou; thought; thy; time; town; trees; upsala; walls; water; way; world; young
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item: #4 of 19
id: 13758
author: McDonald, Etta Blaisdell
title: Gerda in Sweden
date: None
words: 25629
flesch: 86
summary: It was in the Dales that Gerda and little Birger outgrew their cradle and their baby clothes, and became the sturdy children their father longed to have them. Gerda Ekman has seen plenty of dancing in Stockholm, he said.
keywords: birger; boat; box; children; come; day; ekman; erik; father; gerda; good; karen; lieutenant; mother; night; reindeer; sea; summer; sun; sweden; time; twins; way; winter
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item: #5 of 19
id: 14356
author: Lagerlöf, Selma
title: The Emperor of Portugallia
date: None
words: 63435
flesch: 87
summary: Glory Goldie must be asleep this long while, thought Jan, when he finally put in the spade for the last bit of earth. The day Jan of Ruffluck visited the school, he and his little Glory Goldie walked hand in hand, as usual, all the way, like good friends and comrades; but as soon as they came in sight of the schoolhouse and Glory Goldie saw the children assembled outside, she dropped her father's hand and crossed to the other side of the road.
keywords: child; church; course; daughter; day; emperor; eric; eyes; falla; father; girl; glory; glory goldie; goldie; good; gunnarson; hand; home; house; hut; jan; katrina; lars; let; man; people; pier; right; ruffluck; saw; sexton; son; thought; time; way
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item: #6 of 19
id: 16422
author: Flygare-Carlén, Emilie
title: The Home in the Valley
date: None
words: 40061
flesch: 77
summary: Then you would say, Mr. Gottlieb, that by some magic spell you have driven away Miss Sophia's gloominess? Yes, I can say Miss Sophia's also. Are you weeping? Mr. Gottlieb may be mischievous and tantalizing enough to compel me to do so; but this time he has not succeeded.
keywords: aunt; carl; children; day; dear; eyes; fabian; father; good; gottlieb; heart; home; husband; life; lonner; love; magde; man; mrs; nanna; poor; ragnar; room; thought; time; ulrica; wife; wish; words
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item: #7 of 19
id: 17407
author: Whitlocke, Bulstrode
title: A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.
date: None
words: 140153
flesch: 68
summary: _ Most Serene and Potent Queen, God, who is the great Disposer of all things, having been pleased in His unsearchable wisdom to make a change in the Government of these nations since the time that the noble B. Whitelocke, Constable, etc. went from hence, qualified and commissioned as Ambassador Extraordinary from the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England unto your Majesty, to communicate with you in things tending to the mutual good and utility of both the nations, we have thought it necessary upon this occasion to assure your Majesty that the present change of affairs here hath made no alteration of the good intentions on this side towards your Majesty and your dominions; but that as we hold ourself obliged, in the exercise of that power which God and the people have entrusted us with, to endeavour by all just and honourable means to hold a good correspondence with our neighbours, so more particularly with the Crown of Sweden, between whom and these nations there hath always been a firm amity and strict alliance; and therefore we have given instructions to the said Lord Whitelocke, answerable to such good desires, earnestly requesting your Majesty to give unto him favourable audience as often as he shall desire it, and full belief in what he shall propound on the behalf of these dominions. The French Resident visited Whitelocke in the afternoon, and seeing his coaches and horses ready to go abroad to take the air, offered, with many compliments, to bear Whitelocke company, which he could not refuse.
keywords: affairs; ambassador whitelocke; articles; business; cause; chancellor; city; commonwealth; company; council; country; court; day; denmark; desire; discourse; dutch; england; english; eric; excellence; favour; fit; gentlemen; god; good; government; grave; hand; hath; highness; honour; hope; house; king; lagerfeldt; leave; letters; like; little; long; lord whitelocke; lords; majesty; master; men; morning; night; o'clock; occasion; officers; order; parts; people; person; place; power; present; prince; protector; public; queen; resident; respect; return; sea; senators; service; ship; son; state; sweden; swedish; thanks; things; thought; time; touching; town; treaty; visit; voyage; war; way; whereof; whitelocke; wind
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item: #8 of 19
id: 18037
author: Anonymous
title: The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
date: None
words: 30984
flesch: 70
summary: Heaven only knows, says Madame Pfeiffer in her autobiography, what I suffered during eighteen years of my married life; not, indeed, from any ill-treatment on my husband's part, but from poverty and want. With the profits of this book to swell her funds, Madame Pfeiffer felt emboldened to undertake a new expedition; and this time she resolved on a northern pilgrimage, expecting in _Ultima Thule_ to see nature manifested on a novel and surprising scale.
keywords: black; city; day; days; european; feet; fire; half; hand; head; height; hills; house; iceland; ida; interior; island; journey; lake; lava; leaves; left; length; madame; men; miles; mountain; new; place; point; river; round; scene; sea; second; time; traveller; trees; vienna; visit; water; way; women; world
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item: #9 of 19
id: 18357
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
date: None
words: 115503
flesch: 82
summary: We had more than one hot fight, and lost many good men. In the first place, because I know he will do it well, and even those who consider that I am rash and headstrong, admit that I have the knack of picking out good men.
keywords: army; captain; charles; charlie; company; country; course; day; days; doubt; father; fellow; fire; gentlemen; good; half; harry; head; horses; hour; house; jervoise; king; left; life; man; marmaduke; matter; men; money; morning; news; night; officers; place; present; round; russians; service; sir; sweden; swedish; thought; time; town; troops; way; work
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item: #10 of 19
id: 20746
author: Bremer, Fredrika
title: The Home; Or, Life in Sweden
date: None
words: 153012
flesch: 77
summary: I think he is much handsomer than my father, said little Petrea. exclaimed little Petrea, beckoning with the hand, leaping, and almost out of herself for delight, whilst she looked through the trellis-work of a tall handsome gate into pleasure-grounds which were laid out in the old-fashioned manner, and ornamented with clipped trees.
keywords: account; assessor; candidate; children; countenance; day; dear; earth; elise; ernst; eva; evening; eyes; family; father; friend; gabriele; glance; god; good; gunilla; hand; happiness; head; heart; heaven; henrik; home; house; husband; jacobi; joy; judge; kind; lady; leonore; life; little; look; louise; love; man; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nay; night; order; parents; people; petrea; pleasure; room; sara; sisters; soul; tears; things; thought; time; voice; way; wife; words; world
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item: #11 of 19
id: 22195
author: Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)
title: Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories
date: None
words: 27144
flesch: 82
summary: I have always missed something, and felt that I was different from other little girls, but I did not really understand what it was. She was a teacher, a teacher of the little school--that is to say, of the school for little children.
keywords: away; children; day; elsa; face; father; girl; good; hand; home; johanson; karin; little; man; mother; new; nils; pastor; room; schoolmistress; teacher; tora; way; wife; woman
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item: #12 of 19
id: 28349
author: Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)
title: The Golden House
date: None
words: 38845
flesch: 85
summary: If little Nono had no sunny Italian skies above him, he had the sunshine of a happy home, and real affection in the golden house. Perhaps she had thought that he might be feeling lonely there by himself, or perhaps she fancied that she had prepared too rich a dish of instruction for little Nono to receive alone.
keywords: alma; boy; boys; children; colonel; cottage; day; dear; decima; eyes; face; family; father; frans; golden; good; hand; home; house; jan; karin; life; little; man; mother; nono; pelle; princess; room; story; thought; time; way
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item: #13 of 19
id: 37193
author: None
title: The Swedish Fairy Book
date: None
words: 51107
flesch: 87
summary: But in the city there were a number of brave young sons of kings, as well as other young men, who would have liked to have talked to the beautiful maiden. And the prince took his young wife home to the beautiful castle, and there he became king and she was his queen.
keywords: castle; daughter; day; dogs; duke; giant; golden; hill; home; horse; king; maiden; man; mountain; people; princess; queen; sea; silverwhite; thought; time; troll; way; woman; youth
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item: #14 of 19
id: 41414
author: Lagerlöf, Selma
title: The Girl from the Marsh Croft
date: None
words: 57163
flesch: 87
summary: They knew enough of the histories of great men to know that he who wants to accomplish anything noteworthy must first of all have knowledge. There were old men who had devoted their entire lives to the quest for knowledge, and children who were just learning to form their letters.
keywords: abbot; big; boys; church; day; eyes; father; forest; girl; good; gudmund; hand; hans; head; helga; hildur; home; house; judge; king; life; long; man; mother; night; parson; people; place; robber; room; saw; story; thought; time; way; years
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item: #15 of 19
id: 43638
author: Coburn, Claire Martha
title: Our Little Swedish Cousin
date: None
words: 18269
flesch: 91
summary: Little children should have been abed and asleep when the family finally sat down to their supper. It was brushed back very tight and trim, for that is the way Swedish mothers think little girls should wear their hair.
keywords: anders; children; christmas; country; day; days; eklund; erik; family; father; girl; house; king; lund; miss; mother; mrs; people; sigrid; story; time; white
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item: #16 of 19
id: 44109
author: Strindberg, August
title: The Son of a Servant
date: None
words: 57182
flesch: 81
summary: John felt ashamed to take the present, and made little of his kindness. They went into the open plain, where they met some of his comrades, and John felt the presence of his little brother like a clog on his leg.
keywords: book; boys; brother; children; christ; church; clara; class; classes; come; day; evening; fact; family; father; friend; girls; god; good; hand; home; house; john; lessons; life; love; man; matter; men; mother; nature; new; order; people; place; room; school; self; servant; son; step; strindberg; teacher; things; thought; time; way; work; year
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item: #17 of 19
id: 44630
author: Lagerlöf, Selma
title: From a Swedish Homestead
date: None
words: 89257
flesch: 90
summary: She saw green courtyards, where handmaidens were twining ropes for the seafaring men, and where old men sat mending the gray wadmal sails. 'But in any case not right to San Giorgio, you foolhardy old man,' he said.
keywords: astrid; church; coffin; day; dead; eyes; face; forest; girl; god; good; grave; hand; hede; help; hjalte; home; house; ingrid; king; left; life; little; love; man; moment; mother; olaf; people; room; san; saw; sea; tell; thee; think; thought; time; violin; way; woman; young
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item: #18 of 19
id: 49588
author: Snow, Erastus Fairbanks
title: One Year in Scandinavia Results of the gospel in Denmark and Sweden; sketches and observations on the country and people; remarkable events; late persecutions and present aspect of affairs
date: None
words: 11459
flesch: 65
summary: As far as my experience and observation extend, the Danes are a kind and hospitable people, especially the middle and lower classes; and a higher tone of morality pervading them, than exists in the corresponding classes in England and America; and if I mistake not my feelings, the Lord has many people among them. It runs as follows:--After being examined and bearing testimony before the authorities, civil and ecclesiastical, in Geffle and Stockholm, he was held as a prisoner at large in the latter place, not being permitted to preach or to leave town; but the newspapers published accounts of his doings and sayings, and his whereabouts in Stockholm, and the result was that many people flocked to see him, both from town and country.
keywords: book; brother; church; copenhagen; country; danish; denmark; elder; forssgren; king; language; lord; people; saints; snow; sweden; time; work
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item: #19 of 19
id: 5161
author: Lagerlöf, Selma
title: The Treasure
date: None
words: 24933
flesch: 92
summary: And Elsalill knew at once that the man was Sir Archie, the leader of the Scots, who had talked with her on the quay. And Elsalill sat and listened to Sir Archie, who spoke both long and well.
keywords: arne; dead; elsalill; eyes; hand; herr; ice; man; men; sea; sir; sir archie; sister; skipper; thought; time; torarin
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