The Emperor of Portugallia [SEP] illustrator
The Emperor of Portugallia
The Emperor of Portugallia (Swedish: Kejsarn av Portugallien) is a novel by Nobel-laureate Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1914 with drawings by Albert Engström. Lagerlöf called it a "Swedish King Lear". 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". It has been filmed three times: 1925, 1944 and 1992. An English
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- Emperor Norton is the probable basis for the Selma Lagerlöf novel, "Kejsarn av Portugallien" ("The Emperor of Portugallia"), the story of a rural Swedish man so disturbed by his daughter's leaving home that he goes mad and declares himself the emperor of Portugallia, parading through