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.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils : A Boy Shrunk to Elf-Size Flies Over Sweden
Geschrieben von Selma Lagerlöf
