The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (eBook)

Selma Lagerlöf (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
446 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406605772-5 (EAN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2020
• Übersetzer: Velma Swanston Howard
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
• Schlagworte: Alice in Wonderland • Animal Adventures • A Wrinkle in Time • Fantasy journey • Folklore Adaptation • FROZEN • Harry Potter • Jane Austen • Jules Verne • Lewis Carroll • magical realism • nordic mythology • Peter Pan • Polar Express • Swedish folklore • talking animals • Tom Sawyer • Tomte transformation • Transformation tale • young protagonist