{"product_id":"the-wonderful-adventures-of-nils-unabridged-original-version-paperback","title":"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Unabridged Original Version - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSelma Lagerl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVelma Swanston Howard\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003etomte\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (orig. \u003cem\u003eNils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden\u003c\/em\u003e) is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerl f. It was published in two books, \u003cem\u003eThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils\u003c\/em\u003e in 1906 and \u003cem\u003eFurther Adventures of Nils\u003c\/em\u003e in 1907. These two are usually combined into a single book called \u003cem\u003eThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils\u003c\/em\u003e, although that name could also describe the first book only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools. \"She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story.\" (From translator Velma Swanston Howard's introduction.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelma Lagerl f, 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 (see Svenska Akademiens Ordlista).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780938432800,"sku":"9782491251086","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c04d752e6b3c85fc2d9594e2e7559108.webp?v=1780540666","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-wonderful-adventures-of-nils-unabridged-original-version-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}