THE OUTCAST

BY

TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH
BY
W. WORSTER, M. A.

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, TORONTO
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1922

BOOKS BY SELMA LAGERLÖF

JERUSALEM, A Novel
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

CHRIST LEGENDS
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF NILS
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF NILS
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

LEGEND OF THE SACRED IMAGE
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST
(Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flack)

STORY OF GÖSTA BERLING
(Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flack)

THE EMPEROR OF PORTUGALLIA
(Trans. from Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard)

THE OUTCAST
(Trans. from Swedish by W. Worster, M. A.)

CONTENTS

BOOK I
Grimön
In God's House
Father, Mother, and Son
The "Naiad"
The Schoolhouse
The Stonehills
The Sea
Sailing
Less than the Least

BOOK II
Lotta Hedman
The Wonderful Music
Sigrun
Hånger
The Meeting
The Vicarage
Preparations
The Flight
The Long Day
Morning

BOOK III
The Bereaved
A Letter
The Trollfolk of Hånger
The Lifting of the Curse
Ung-Joel
In the Nets
The Sermon of the Sacredness of Life
The Fifth Commandment
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