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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Dover Publications, 2013
Wildside Press, 2009
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907
Grosset & Dunlap, 1907
Original Swedish publication, 1906
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Genre: Fantasy
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Kenne Fant & Co
9/12/1962

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909 -- the first woman to be so honored -- Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a gifted storyteller whose writings were often tinged with the supernatural and rooted in the sagas and legends of her homeland.

She secured her reputation as a children's-book author with The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, long considered a masterpiece of children's literature. Written at the request of Swedish school authorities and first published in 1906, it is the enchanting and remarkably original tale of Nils Holgersson, a mischievous boy of 14 who is changed by an elf into a tiny being able to understand the speech of birds and animals.

Brilliantly weaving fact and fiction into a breathtaking and beautiful fable, the story recounts Nils's adventures as he is transported over the countryside on the back of a goose. From this vantage point, Nils witnesses a host of events that provide young readers with an abundance of information about nature, geography, folklore, animal life, and more.


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