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Further adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerof is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Further adventures of Nils about?

Thebook is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was toeat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takesgreat delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. Nils captures atomte in a net while his family is at church and have left him home tomemorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that ifNils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejectsthe offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves himshrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boyreduced to their size and are angry and hungry for revenge. While thisis happening, wild geese are flying over the farm on one of theirmigrations, and a white farm goose attempts to join the wild ones. In anattempt to salvage something before his family returns, Nils holds onto the bird's neck as it successfully takes off and joins the wildbirds. The wild geese, who are not pleased at all to be joined by a boyand a domestic goose, eventually take him on an adventurous trip acrossall the historical provinces of Sweden observing in passing theirnatural characteristics and economic resources. At the same time thecharacters and situati

Who reads Further adventures of Nils?

Author

Selma Lagerof

Published

2019

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Fiction