About the Author

P�r Lagerkvist, playwright, poet, essayist, and novelist, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. The Dwarf, long considered a masterpiece of modern literature, was first published in 1945. Mr. Lagerkvist died in Sweden in 1974.

Reviews

"Don't miss this. You will not soon find another like it. The evil in the Dwarf's nature is in ours, too--is universal." --Dorothy Canfield