Excerpt from Per Hallström: Selected Short Stories<br><br>The outside facts of Hallstrom's life are soon told. Born in Stockholm on September 29, 1866, he studied engineering at the Technical College of that city and in 1888 went out to America as chemist at a factory in Chicago. Returning in 1890, he held a government post for a time and then went to live in Florence. From 1904 to 1905 he was dramatic critic to the Stockholm paper Dagens Nyheter, and since 1906 he has settled down at saltsjo-stor'angen, near Stockholm, devoting him self to writing. He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1908, and is one of the com mittee which awards the Nobel prize for litera ture, and notwithstanding his retiring disposition and dislike of publicity, honors of various kinds have not been withheld from him.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.