The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

316 Pages·1936·15.28 MB·English

by  Lagerlof Selma

The Wonderful
Adventures
of Nils
SELMA LAGERLOF
MARY HAMILTON FE
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ADVENTURES 3
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OF
NILS
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Translatedby
VELMA SWANSTON HOWARD
LAGERLOF'S
SELMA
story of Nils, the bad
boy who turned into a tiny
elf, and 01 his adventures
in animal-land, has become
A
a real fairy classic. series
of beautiful color drawings
have now been made for it
by Miss Frye. Her pictures
of Nils are very quaintly
dra\vn and the fairy story
takes on new realism in
her
delightful interpretation
of it.
Seldom has such intricateweaving and
interweaving of fact and fancy, history
and tradition, fairy lore and naturecraft,
beenaccomplishedso deftly . . , the
style is simple and natural, the story
whimsical and rich in delicatehumor.
-NewYork Sun.
Selma Lagerlofis the greatest imagina-
tivegeniusinmodernliterature. Fewmen
orwomen in the world have everhad the
right to write fairy stories, but Selma
Laserlot is one of them.
New York American.
Illustrated by
Mary Hamilton Frye
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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES
OF NILS

Selma
By Lager/of
JERUSALEM, A Novel
(Trans,fromSwedishby VelmaSteanstonHoward)
CHRIST LEGENDS
(Trans,from Swedishby VelmaSwanstonHoward)
WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF NILS
(Trans,from Swedish by VelmaSwanstonHoward)
FURTHER ADVENTURES OF NILS
(Trans,from Swedishby VelmaSwanstonHoward)
GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT
(Trans,fromSwedishby FelmaSwanstonHoward)
LEGEND OF THE SACRED IMAGE
(Trans,fromSwedishby Velma SwanstonHoward)
MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST
(Trans,from Swedish byPaulineBancroftFlach)
STORY OF GOSTA BERLING
(Trans,fromSwedish by PaulineBancroftFlach)
THE EMPEROR OF PORTUGALLIA
(Trans,fromSwedish by VelmaSwanstonHoward)
THE HOLY CITY, Jerusalem II
(Trans,fromSwedishby VelmaSwanstonHoward)
FROM A SWEDISH HOMESTEAD
(Trans,fromSwedishbyJessieBrochner)
INVISIBLE LINKS
(Trans,fromSwedishbyPaulineBancroftFlach}
LILLIECRONA'S HOME
(Trans,fromSwedishbyAnnaHarwell)
THE OUTCAST
(Trans,fromSwedishby W. Woriter,M.A.)
MARBACKA
(Trans,fromSwedishby VilmaSwanstonHoward)
THE TREASURE
(Trans,fromSwedishbyArthurG.Chaler)
CHARLOTTE LOWENSKOLD
(Trans,fromSwedishbyVelmaSwanstonHoward}