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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf
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Nils Holgerssons forunderlige reise gjennom Sverige

by Selma Lagerlöf

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Oslo : Gyldendal , c1989

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This is just the best trip to Sweden ever! I love reading this over and over. I own it in English and I read parts of it in Swedish on line.
  augustau | Nov 30, 2009 |
I was delighted to find this second-hand book, in perfect condition, copiously illustrated with beautiful coloured paintings and black and white drawings, headpieces, tailpieces, middle pieces - and a map of Sweden. ( )
  overthemoon | Mar 4, 2009 |
Nils Holgersson is a 14 year old boy who experiences an unusual punishment for his cruelty to animals, his selfish behavior, and his mistreatment of a magical elf. NIls is transformed into a little boy the same size as an elf. He finds himself on an adventure with a domesticated white gander and a group of wild geese. He travels with the wild geese, riding the white gander. His journey introduces Nils to the world of wild animals and the perspective of the wild geese and many other animals. He comes to understand that he is a part of this wild community and that he must help the animals he once mistreated. The fantastical worlds he visits leap off the page and take the reader into worlds only dreamed of.
  netaylor | Jan 28, 2009 |
A great adventure story and fantasy, although it was written as a geography lesson for Swedish children! Worth reading for any child. ( )
  auntieknickers | Jan 16, 2008 |
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils -- which is the work of Sweden's greatest fiction writer -- was first published in Stockholm, in December, 1906. Lagerlöf wrote it after a commission from the National Teachers' Association to write a reader for the public schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life; she sought out unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces, and wove them all into her story. With no small success; the book immediately became the most popular book of the year in Scandinavia. "The great author stands as it were in the background. The prophetess is forgotten for the voices that speak through her. It is as though the book had sprung direct from the soul of the Swedish nation." -- Stockholm's Dagblad ". . . a classic. . . . A masterwork." -- Sydsvenska Dagbladet ". . . the great story-teller, the greatest, perhaps, in Scandinavian literature since the days of Hans Christian Andersen. . . . The Adventures of Nils will always be precious. . . ." -- Gefle Posten

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