The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: A Boy Shrunk to Elf-Size Flies Over Sweden
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A farm boy who torments animals is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried the length of Sweden on the back of a goose, learning the country province by province. Lagerlöf was commissioned to write a geography reader for schools and produced a novel instead; she took the Nobel Prize three years later, the first woman to do so. The lesson is delivered, but what the book is remembered for is the flight. Fifty-four plates of painting, from Caspar David Friedrich's meadows to Carl d'Unker's Palais Royal, follow the flight through northern light and harvest fields.
A farm boy who torments animals is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried the length of Sweden on the back of a goose, learning the country province by province. Lagerlöf was commissioned to write a geography reader for schools and produced a novel instead; she took the Nobel Prize t...
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Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) was a village schoolmistress who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first admitted to the Swedish Academy. Nils, written as a school reader to teach children the geography of Sweden, is read everywhere else as a story.
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) was a village schoolmistress who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first admitted to the Swedish Academy. Nils, written as a school reader to teach children the geography of Sweden, is read everywhere else as a story.
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