The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson

Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Norlen

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English

Penguin
27 November 2017

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Animal stories (Children's&YA)

Scandinavia's best-loved children's classic from the first female writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

'Never before had Nils travelled around at such good speed, and he had always liked riding fast and wild... Nor had he thought what it might be like to travel so high above the ground. But it was like flying away from worries and sorrows and annoyances of every imaginable kind'

Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who pulls the tails of cats and trips up his mother while she is carrying the milk pail. Then one day he discovers he has been magically turned into a tiny imp. He climbs on the back of a gander and takes off with a flock of wild geese as they fly over Sweden, soaring above patchwork fields, through storms, to castles and lakes and even to a city under the sea. As he learns about the world, he also learns what it means to care for living things, in Selma Lagerlöf's timeless and beloved fable.

By: Selma Lagerlöf
Translated by: Paul Norlen
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 169g
ISBN: 9780241206096
ISBN 10: 024120609X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 27 November 2017
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940) was a teacher in a girls' secondary school before she became a full-time writer. She is known around the world for her classic children's book The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson and she was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in 1909.

Reviews for The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson

A masterpiece... It showed me that a book could be an adventure -- Gary Shteyngart A childhood favorite -- Philip Gourevitch Among women novelists of great talent or genius, none, in my opinion, is to be placed higher than Selma Lagerloef -- Marguerite Yourcenar Every book of this great storyteller keeps on bringing us astonishing examples of her art... No one in Europe can tell tales so unforgettably -- Hermann Hesse I am a strange Japanese who spent his infancy and boyhood under the overwhelming influence of Nils Holgersson. So great was Nils' influence on me that there was a time I could name Sweden's beautiful locales better than those of my own country... The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe -- Kenzaburo Oe Grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant... This wise, rich text is a welcome addition to Penguin's Classics series -- Philip Womack * Guardian *