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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Dover Children's Classics) by Selma Lagerlöf; Thea Kliros; Velma S. Howard is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

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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.Reset in easy-to-read type and enhanced with 10 new illustrations, this inexpensive, unabridged edition will bring new generations of readers under the magical spe

Who reads The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Dover Children's Classics)?

Author

Selma Lagerlöf; Thea Kliros; Velma S. Howard

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486117607

Category

children's

Subjects

Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy

Rating

4.04 / 5 (6,323 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14