Download Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlof and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selfish and lazy, fourteen-year-old Nils learns kindness and wisdom after he is bewitched into an elf-sized boy and carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Release Date : 1907
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 764 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlöf and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1907 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who tortures animals and never listens to his parents - until one day he wakes up as an elf. Deeply puzzled by his new status, he climbs on a gander's back and flies away with him, joining a flock of wild geese. As he is carried around Sweden, Nils learns everything about birds, animals, his country and good behaviour. Incredibly charming and poignant, The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson, is a timeless classic loved by generations of children around the world.
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson
Author : Selma Lagerlof
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-02-13
ISBN 10 : 9780241206096
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (26 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlof and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandinavia’s best-loved children’s classic, from the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who tortures animals and never listens to his parents—until one day he wakes up as an elf. Deeply puzzled by his new status, he climbs on a gander’s back and flies away with him, joining a flock of wild geese. As he is carried around Sweden, Nils learns everything about birds, animals, his country and good behavior. Incredibly charming and poignant, The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson is a timeless classic loved by generations of children around the world.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
ISBN 10 : 9781465607577
Pages : 539 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (67 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlöf and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once there was a boy. He was—let us say—something like fourteen years old; long and loose-jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep; and after that—he liked best to make mischief. It was a Sunday morning and the boy's parents were getting ready to go to church. The boy sat on the edge of the table, in his shirt sleeves, and thought how lucky it was that both father and mother were going away, and the coast would be clear for a couple of hours. "Good! Now I can take down pop's gun and fire off a shot, without anybody's meddling interference," he said to himself. But it was almost as if father should have guessed the boy's thoughts, for just as he was on the threshold—ready to start—he stopped short, and turned toward the boy. "Since you won't come to church with mother and me," he said, "the least you can do, is to read the service at home. Will you promise to do so?" "Yes," said the boy, "that I can do easy enough." And he thought, of course, that he wouldn't read any more than he felt like reading. The boy thought that never had he seen his mother so persistent. In a second she was over by the shelf near the fireplace, and took down Luther's Commentary and laid it on the table, in front of the window—opened at the service for the day. She also opened the New Testament, and placed it beside the Commentary. Finally, she drew up the big arm-chair, which was bought at the parish auction the year before, and which, as a rule, no one but father was permitted to occupy. The boy sat thinking that his mother was giving herself altogether too much trouble with this spread; for he had no intention of reading more than a page or so. But now, for the second time, it was almost as if his father were able to see right through him. He walked up to the boy, and said in a severe tone: "Now, remember, that you are to read carefully! For when we come back, I shall question you thoroughly; and if you have skipped a single page, it will not go well with you." "The service is fourteen and a half pages long," said his mother, just as if she wanted to heap up the measure of his misfortune. "You'll have to sit down and begin the reading at once, if you expect to get through with it." With that they departed. And as the boy stood in the doorway watching them, he thought that he had been caught in a trap. "There they go congratulating themselves, I suppose, in the belief that they've hit upon something so good that I'll be forced to sit and hang over the sermon the whole time that they are away," thought he. But his father and mother were certainly not congratulating themselves upon anything of the sort; but, on the contrary, they were very much distressed. They were poor farmers, and their place was not much bigger than a garden-plot. When they first moved there, the place couldn't feed more than one pig and a pair of chickens; but they were uncommonly industrious and capable folk—and now they had both cows and geese. Things had turned out very well for them; and they would have gone to church that beautiful morning—satisfied and happy—if they hadn't had their son to think of. Father complained that he was dull and lazy; he had not cared to learn anything at school, and he was such an all-round good-for-nothing, that he could barely be made to tend geese. Mother did not deny that this was true; but she was most distressed because he was wild and bad; cruel to animals, and ill-willed toward human beings. "May God soften his hard heart, and give him a better disposition!" said the mother, "or else he will be a misfortune, both to himself and to us."
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils / the Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson
Author : Selma Lagerlof
Publisher :
Release Date : 2016-10-03
ISBN 10 : 1539186172
Pages : 522 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (539 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils / the Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlof and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 tomte 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.The wild geese, who are not pleased at all to be joined by a boy and a domestic goose, eventually take him on an adventurous trip across all the historical provinces of Sweden observing in passing their natural characteristics and economic resources. At the same time the characters and situations he encounters make him a man: the domestic goose needs to prove his ability to fly like the experienced wild geese, and Nils needs to prove to the geese that he would be a useful companion, despite their initial misgivings. During the trip, Nils learns that if he proves he has changed for the better, the tomte might be disposed to change him back to his normal size.The book also includes various subplots, concerning people whose lives are touched in one way or another by Nils and the wild geese. For example, one chapter centers on a young provincial man who feels lonely and alienated in the capital Stockholm, is befriended by a nice old gentleman who tells him (and the reader) about the city's history - and only later finds that it was none other than the King of Sweden, walking incognito in the park.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher : Turtleback
Release Date : 2003-09-01
ISBN 10 : 0613799615
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (613 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlöf and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils -- which is the work of Sweden's greatest fiction writer -- was first published in Stockholm, in December, 1906. Lagerl?f wrote it after a commission from the National Teachers' Association to write a reader for the public schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life; she sought out unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces, and wove them all into her story. With no small success; the book immediately became the most popular book of the year in Scandinavia.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher : e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-09-18
ISBN 10 : EAN:4064066057725
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlöf and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerloef
Publisher : The Floating Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781776533275
Pages : 493 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (533 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerloef and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Younger readers who enjoy fantasy tales like the Harry Potter series will love Selma Lagerloef's timeless classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. One day while his parents are out, Nils encounters a magical being who shrinks him to a fraction of his former size. Nils then sets off on a cross-country adventure, hitching a ride on a goose and learning about the wonders of nature in the process.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher :
Release Date : 1917
ISBN 10 : IOWA:31858004863068
Pages : 476 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlof
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-08-24
ISBN 10 : 2382261420
Pages : 438 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (382 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlof and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige; literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first women to receive Nobel Prize in literature to make the study Sweden geography fun for children. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first published in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1907 and Further Adventures of Nils in 1911. The two parts are usually published together, in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but that name may also refer to the first part alone. Selma Lagerlöf, 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).
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Unabridged Original Version
Author : Selma Lagerlof
Publisher :
Release Date : 2019-07-27
ISBN 10 : 2491251086
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (491 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Unabridged Original Version PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlof and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 tomte 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. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It was published in two books, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1906 and Further Adventures of Nils in 1907. These two are usually combined into a single book called The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, although that name could also describe the first book only. The 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.) Selma Lagerlöf, 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).
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher :
Release Date : 2013-12-31
ISBN 10 : 1909408182
Pages : 684 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (99 downloads)
Download Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlöf and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, but quickly won international fame and popularity. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander's back and is then carried the length of the country, learning both geography and good behavior as he goes, has captivated adults and children alike. The elegance of the present translation - the first full translation into English - is beautifully complemented by the illustrations specially created for the volume. Selma Lagerlf was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Great Swedish Fairy Tales by Lagerlöf Hardcover Book
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-08-24
ISBN 10 : 2382261412
Pages : 438 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (382 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Great Swedish Fairy Tales by Lagerlöf Hardcover Book PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlöf and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige; literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first women to receive Nobel Prize in literature to make the study Sweden geography fun for children. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first published in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1907 and Further Adventures of Nils in 1911. The two parts are usually published together, in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but that name may also refer to the first part alone. Selma Lagerlöf, 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).
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Further Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher :
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 014130667X
Pages : 247 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (141 downloads)
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerloef
Publisher : CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-03
ISBN 10 : 1514200643
Pages : 306 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (514 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerloef and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlof. Originaly it was published in two books, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1906 and Further Adventures of Nils in 1907. These two are usually combined into a single book called The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, although that name could also describe the first book only. The 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."
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Classic Reprint)
Author : Selma Lagerlof
Publisher :
Release Date : 2015-07-10
ISBN 10 : 1331126134
Pages : 472 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (331 downloads)
Download The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Classic Reprint) PDF Format Full Free by Selma Lagerlof and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils This book, which is the latest work of Sweden's greatest fiction writer, was published in Stockholm, December, 1906. It became immediately the most popular book of the year in Scandinavia. Four years ago the author received a commission from the National Teachers' Association to write a reader for the public schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarising herself with animal and bird life. She sought out hitherto unpublished folk-lore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story. The book has been translated into German and Danish, and the book reviewers of Germany and Denmark, as well as those of Sweden, are unanimous in proclaiming this Selma Lagerlof's best work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author : Selma Lagerlof (author)
Publisher :
Release Date : 1901
ISBN 10 : 9791190059602
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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