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About 328 pages (98,463 words) in 23 products |
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| Name: |
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist | | Birth Date: |
May 23, 1891 | | Death Date: |
July 12, 1974 | | Place of Birth: |
Växjö, Sweden | | Nationality: |
Swedish | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
880 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Swedish author Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was concerned with the meaning of life in a world without God and the existence of good and evil in such a world. Leif Sjöberg, in Pär Lagerkvist summarized the man: "Pär... summary from source:
 Biography of Par Lagerkvist
14,196 words, approx. 47 pages
 The position of Pär Lagerkvist as one of the leading Swedish writers of the twentieth century has long been assured. In a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, Lagerkvist displayed a remarkable versatility in his writing. His mastery... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Pär Lagerkvist Information
905 words, approx. 3 pages
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (May 23, 1891 – July 11, 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his...
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 Washington Jewish Week P.R. matters
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The Washington Post Learning Continues at P.R. Harris
03/11/1998: 475 words, approx. 2 pages Because of Debbi Wilgoren's Feb. 2 front-page article, "Exercises in Frustration at P.R. Harris," the school has been unfairly singled out as an example of everything that is wrong in the city's public school system. While we share the same problems as any other...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Roy Arthur Swanson
14,212 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Swanson traces Lagerkvist's literary development and delineates the defining characteristics of his work.
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Critical Essay by Jeff Polet
8,811 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Polet discusses how Lagerkvist's characters mirror his own search for eternal peace and the Kingdom of God, by exploring the connection between social order and freedom and the deepest questions of what he called “human destiny.”
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