The Emperor of Portugallia is called the "Swedish King Lear" by Lagerlof. It was a success with critics and readers, considered to be at the same level as Lagerlof's earlier novels Gosta Berling's Saga and the first part of Jerusalem. Taking place in 1860 or 1870 in Lagerlof's native Varmland, it tell the story about the tenant farmer Jan in Skrolycka and his daughter Glory Goldie Sunnycastle. More than anything else he loves his daughter, but after she moves to Stockholm at age 17 and becomes wealthy and well-known, she stops sending letters home. The father sinks into a dream world where he...
The Emperor of Portugallia is called the "Swedish King Lear" by Lagerlof. It was a success with critics and readers, considered to be at the same leve...
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander's back and is then carried the length of the country, learning both geography and good behaviour as he goes, has captivated adults and children alike, as well as inspiring film-makers and illustrators. The elegance of the present translation - the first full...
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the ge...
The story of a selfish young farm lad, who after an encounter with an elf, is flung into an adventure that will change him forever, but is it for the better?
The story of a selfish young farm lad, who after an encounter with an elf, is flung into an adventure that will change him forever, but is it for the ...
The book is about 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 in his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family is 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...
The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief." He takes gr...
Readers of Miss Lagerlof will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism. This writer's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first successful work, "Gosta Berling." How "The Story of Gosta Berling" grew, and the years required to perfect it, is told in the author's unique literary autobiography, "The Story of a Story," which is embodied in the present volume. In "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" Miss Lagerlof has courageously chosen a girl...
Readers of Miss Lagerlof will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former worl...
El pequeno Nils Holgersson ha sido convertido en un duende en castigo por su mal comportamiento. Para romper el hechizo y volver a ser un nino debera acompanar a una bandada de gansos en su viaje a traves de Suecia. Junto a ellos vivira numerosas aventuras, unas peligrosas y otras divertidas, pero ninguna le dejara indiferente. Este va a ser para Nils el viaje de su vida, el descubrimiento de un mundo que le cambiara para siempre y le convertira en persona, en todos los sentidos. El maravilloso viaje de Nils Holgersson es una famosa obra de ficcion de la autora sueca Selma Lagerlof, publicada...
El pequeno Nils Holgersson ha sido convertido en un duende en castigo por su mal comportamiento. Para romper el hechizo y volver a ser un nino debera ...
