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"There isn't much that tastes better than to receive praise from those who are themselves wise and capable; and the boy had certainly never felt so happy as he did when the wild goose and the stork talked about him in this way."
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. The novel is one of Lagerlöf's most well-known books, and it has been translated into more than 30 languages.
The book is about a 14-year-old young lad, Nils Holgersson. He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family are 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 him into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals. The animals 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. Nils holds on to, the farm's white goose, Martin's neck as he takes off and joins the wild birds.
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Cover
Front page
1. The Boy
The Elf
The Wild Geese
The Big Checked Cloth
2. Akka From Kebnekaise
Evening
Night
Goose-play
3. The Wonderful Journey Of Nils
On The Farm
Vittskövle
In Övid Cloister Park
4. Glimminge Castle
Black Rats And Gray Rats
The Stork
The Rat Charmer
5. The Great Crane Dance On Kullaberg
6. In Rainy Weather
7. The Stairway With The Three Steps
8. By Ronneby River
9. Karlskrona
10. The Trip To Öland
11. Öland's Southern Point
12. The Big Butterfly
13. Little Karl's Island
The Storm
The Sheep
Hell's Hole
14. Two Cities
The City At The Bottom Of The Sea
The Living City
15. The Legend Of Småland
16. The Crows
The Earthen Crock
Kidnapped By Crows
The Cabin
17. The Old Peasant Woman
18. From Taberg To Huskvarna
19. The Big Bird Lake
Jarro, The Wild Duck
The Decoy-duck
The Lowering Of The Lake
20. Ulvåsa-lady
The Prophecy
21. The Homespun Cloth
22. The Story Of Karr And Grayskin
Karr
Grayskin's Flight
Helpless, The Water-snake
The Nun Moths
The Big War Of The Moths
Retribution
23. The Wind Witch
In Närke
Market Eve
24. The Breaking Up Of The Ice
25. Thumbietot And The Bears
The Ironworks
26. The Flood
The Swans
The New Watch-dog
27. Dunfin
The City That Floats On The Water
The Sisters
28. Stockholm
Skansen
29. Gorgo, The Eagle
In The Mountain Glen
In Captivity
30. On Over Gästrikland
The Precious Girdle
Forest Day
31. A Day In Hälsingland
A Large Green Leaf
The Animals' New Year's Eve
32. In Medelpad
33. A Morning In Ångermanland
The Bread
The Forest Fire
34. Westbottom And Lapland
The Five Scouts
The Moving Landscape
The Meeting
35. Osa, The Goose Girl, And Little Mats
36. With The Laplanders
The Next Morning
37. Homeward Bound!
The First Travelling Day
38. Legends From Härjedalen
39. Vermland And Dalsland
A Little Homestead
40. The Treasure On The Island
On Their Way To The Sea
The Gift Of The Wild Geese
41. The Journey To Vemminghög
42. Home At Last
43. The Parting With The Wild Geese
Table Of Pronunciation
About the Author
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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909.