Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Caspar David Friedrich, Peder Severin Krøyer and Edvard Munch. A farm boy who torments animals is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried the length of Sweden on the back of a goose, learning the country province by province. Lagerlöf was commissioned to write a geography reader for schools and produced a novel instead; she took the Nobel Prize three years later, the first woman to do so. The lesson is delivered, but what the book is remembered for is the flight. Fifty-four plates of painting, from Caspar David Friedrich's meadows to Carl d'Unker's Palais Royal, follow the flight through northern light and harvest fields.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils : A Boy Shrunk to Elf-Size Flies Over Sweden
Écrit par Selma Lagerlöf
