The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Name: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Author: Selma Lagerlof

by Selma Lagerlof

Fantastical novel of a boy's magical journey across Sweden transformed into wild goose

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Selma Lagerlof

Swedish author and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her fiction drew on Swedish folklore and legend, blending romantic idealism with acute social observation in works like The Saga of Gosta Berlings.

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