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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Author
Selma Lagerlof
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
13 hours 51 minutes
ISBN
9781802566468
Published
29 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Nils
  • Selma Lagerlof
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • family
  • society

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Description

Mischievous Nils Holgersson is turned tiny and rides a goose across Sweden, meeting birds, beasts, and folk who will not stay scenery. Lagerlöf’s classic is geography told as adventure: Skåne to Lapland, wingbeat and weather, a boy learning empathy as the only ticket home to human size. Fantasy yoked to a living map — courage, kindness, and the land he had never bothered to know.

Author

Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) wrote as Sweden's great storyteller — a novelist who could make a province feel like a kingdom and a goose flight feel like an epic. Her Nobel Prize in 1909 recognised not just achievement but imagination: a literature of idealism, compassion, and wonder. From the defrocked cavaliers of Gösta Berling to Nils Holgersson soaring above the map of Sweden, her books teach through delight rather than lecture.

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