"Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Adventures" by Selma Lagerlöf (1906)

The wonderful account of the voyage of a young farm boy who’s been transformed by an elf into a minuscule elf-size figure and who has a series of exciting adventures flying all around Sweden with a flock of wild geese at the turn of the 20th Century.

A timeless modern classic justly famous throughout Scandinavia and elsewhere, celebrating the call of the far-off and the love of the land – and not without many very good lessons for young boys and others on how to behave to animals and people alike.

Translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard in direct collaboration with the Nobel prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf (1848-1940).

(154,000 words)

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