The Best Intentions

Ingmar Bergman

Original title: Goda viljan

first published 1993 Harvill Press, 1997 hardcover 288 pages

In this original, extraordinarily moving, and highly personal novel, world-renowned stage and film director Ingmar Bergman goes back to the time of his parents and grandparents, to the years shortly before, during, and just after World War I. Set in the decade beginning in 1908, The Best Intentions is, ultimately, a love story on many different levels: a man and woman in love; parents and children; and love as miracl...

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Best Intentions hardcover · 1997 · Harvill Press · 288 pages · 9780002713535
The Best Intentions paperback · 1994 · Arcade Publishing · 304 pages · 9781559702492
The best intentions edition · 1993 · Arcade Pub. · 298 pages
The best intentions edition · 1993 · Harvill

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