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Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Adventures - cover

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Adventures

Selma Lagerlöf

Translator Velma Swanston Howard

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The book follows the adventures of 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 on 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 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.
Available since: 12/04/2023.
Print length: 446 pages.

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