Further Adventures of Nils

Further Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Elf-sized Nils learns humility from his further travels with the wild geese.

Further Adventures of Nils

Further Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Book Description
Elf-sized Nils learns humility from his further travels with the wild geese.

The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson

The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241206089
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A story of a naughty little boy who learns to love nature.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN: 9780961539436
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Book Description
A selfish little boy learns humility when he is made tiny by an elf and flies on a long trip with migratory geese.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040840632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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Book Description
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige; literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first women to receive Nobel Prize in literature to make the study Sweden geography fun for children. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first published in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1907 and Further Adventures of Nils in 1911. The two parts are usually published together, in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but that name may also refer to the first part alone. Selma Lagerlöf, like many leading Swedish intellectuals of her time, was an advocate of Swedish spelling reform. When published in 1906, this book was one of the first to adopt the new spelling mandated by a government resolution on April 7, 1906.

Further Adventures of Nils

Further Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlof
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341833734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Nils

Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlof
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572160361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Selfish and lazy, fourteen-year-old Nils learns kindness and wisdom after he is bewitched into an elf-sized boy and carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland.

Further Adventures of Nils

Further Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Continues the story of the selfish boy who learns kindness and wisdom when he is made tiny by an elf and flies on a long trip with migratory geese.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Olivier Latyk Kochka
Publisher: Words & Pictures
ISBN: 9781910277188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
When Nils makes the mistake of teasing an elf, he is bewitched and shrunk to a thumb size. He takes off on the back of a young goosey-gander, named Morten, for a wonderful journey among the wild geese. This exquisitely illustrated book, written by Nobel prize in Literature winner Selma Lagerlöf and illustrated by renowned illustrator Olivier Latyk, incorprates die-cut pages with a fresh and playful narrative adapted from a Swedish children's classic. This book is ideal for the Christmas period with soft winter scenes with a gift-book quality.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Book Description
A selfish little boy learns humility when he is made tiny by an elf and flies on a long trip with migratory geese.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils / the Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils / the Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson PDF Author: Selma Lagerlof
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781539186175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family is at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to their size and are angry and hungry for revenge. While this is happening, wild geese are flying over the farm on one of their migrations, and a white farm goose attempts to join the wild ones. In an attempt to salvage something before his family returns, Nils holds on to the bird's neck as it successfully takes off and joins the wild birds.The wild geese, who are not pleased at all to be joined by a boy and a domestic goose, eventually take him on an adventurous trip across all the historical provinces of Sweden observing in passing their natural characteristics and economic resources. At the same time the characters and situations he encounters make him a man: the domestic goose needs to prove his ability to fly like the experienced wild geese, and Nils needs to prove to the geese that he would be a useful companion, despite their initial misgivings. During the trip, Nils learns that if he proves he has changed for the better, the tomte might be disposed to change him back to his normal size.The book also includes various subplots, concerning people whose lives are touched in one way or another by Nils and the wild geese. For example, one chapter centers on a young provincial man who feels lonely and alienated in the capital Stockholm, is befriended by a nice old gentleman who tells him (and the reader) about the city's history - and only later finds that it was none other than the King of Sweden, walking incognito in the park.