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The Sufferings of this Present Time Are Not Worthy to Be Compared With the Glory Which Shall Be Revealed in Us

Matilda Gustavsson

Translated by Peter Graves

  A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not...

Essays & Memoir
The Online Edition
23rd November 2016
Essays & Memoir
The Online Edition
23rd November 2016

Matilda Gustavsson

Matilda Gustavsson is a reporter and a columnist for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. She is currently working on a novel about the Word of Life movement in Sweden. She lives in Stockholm.

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Translated by Peter Graves

Peter Graves is an Honorary Fellow of Scandinavian Studies in the University of Edinburgh, where he taught for many years.

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