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The wonderful adventures of Nils
- 360 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1907
- 68 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Swedish: Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, lit. 'Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden') is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first published in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1907) and The Further Adventures of Nils (1911). The two parts are later usually published together, in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but that name may also refer to the first part alone.
Like many leading Swedish intellectuals of her time, Selma Lagerlöf was an advocate of Swedish spelling reform. When first published, this book was also one of the first to adopt the new spelling mandated by a government resolution on April 7, 1906.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a classic, fantasy, magic, and a book they can read free online.
- Classics
- Fantasy
- Magic
- Adventure
- Wildlife
- Animals
- Fantasy literature
- Kindness
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