The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Selma Lagerlöf

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       Selma Lagerlöf

      The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

       Translator: Velma Swanston Howard

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066057725

      Table of Contents

       THE BOY

       AKKA FROM KEBNEKAISE

       THE WONDERFUL JOURNEY OF NILS

       GLIMMINGE CASTLE

       THE GREAT CRANE DANCE ON KULLABERG

       IN RAINY WEATHER

       THE STAIRWAY WITH THE THREE STEPS

       BY RONNEBY RIVER

       KARLSKRONA

       THE TRIP TO ÖLAND

       ÖLAND'S SOUTHERN POINT

       THE BIG BUTTERFLY

       LITTLE KARL'S ISLAND

       TWO CITIES

       THE LEGEND OF SMÅLAND

       THE CROWS

       THE OLD PEASANT WOMAN

       FROM TABERG TO HUSKVARNA

       THE BIG BIRD LAKE

       ULVÅSA-LADY

       THE HOMESPUN CLOTH

       THE STORY OF KARR AND GRAYSKIN

       THE WIND WITCH

       THE BREAKING UP OF THE ICE

       THUMBIETOT AND THE BEARS

       THE FLOOD

       DUNFIN

       STOCKHOLM

       GORGO, THE EAGLE

       ON OVER GÄSTRIKLAND

       A DAY IN HÄLSINGLAND

       IN MEDELPAD

       A MORNING IN ÅNGERMANLAND

       WESTBOTTOM AND LAPLAND

       OSA, THE GOOSE GIRL, AND LITTLE MATS

       WITH THE LAPLANDERS

       HOMEWARD BOUND!

       LEGENDS FROM HÄRJEDALEN

       VERMLAND AND DALSLAND

       THE TREASURE ON THE ISLAND

       THE JOURNEY TO VEMMINGHÖG

       HOME AT LAST

       THE PARTING WITH THE WILD GEESE

       TABLE OF PRONUNCIATION

      THE BOY

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       THE ELF

       THE WILD GEESE

       THE BIG CHECKED CLOTH

      THE ELF

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      Sunday, March twentieth.

      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