Puteshestvie Nil'sa s dikimi gusiami [Wonderful Adventures Of Nils]

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909 ? the first woman to be so honored ? Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlf (1858?1940) was a gifted storyteller whose writings were often tinged with the supernatural and rooted in the sagas and legends of her homeland. She secured her reputation as a children's-book author with The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, long considered a masterpiece of children's literature. Written at the request of Swedish school authorities and first published in 1906, it is the enchanting and remarkably original tale of Nils Holgersson