About the book
Nils Holgersson is a lazy, cruel fourteen-year-old who torments the animals on his parents' farm, until an elf he has mistreated shrinks him to the size of a thumb. When the farm's white gander flies off with a flock of wild geese, Nils clings to his neck and goes with them, all the way to Lapland and back, across the whole of Sweden. Selma Lagerlöf wrote the book for Swedish schoolchildren in 1906.
Translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard (1907).
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - Selma Lagerlöf
Choose a chapter
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Chapter 1: The Boy
About 30 min
2
Chapter 2: Akka from Kebnekaise
About 25 min
3
Chapter 3: The Wonderful Journey of Nils
About 35 min
4
Chapter 4: Glimminge Castle
About 20 min
5
Chapter 5: The Great Crane Dance on Kullaberg
About 15 min
6
Chapter 6: In Rainy Weather
About 10 min
7
Chapter 7: The Stairway with the Three Steps
About 5 min
8
Chapter 8: By Ronneby River
About 15 min
9
Chapter 9: Karlskrona
About 15 min
10
Chapter 10: The Trip to Öland
About 5 min
11
Chapter 11: Öland's Southern Point
About 15 min
12
Chapter 12: The Big Butterfly
About 5 min
13
Chapter 13: Little Karl's Island
About 20 min
14
Chapter 14: Cities
About 20 min
15
Chapter 15: The Legend of Småland
About 10 min
16
Chapter 16: The Crows
About 30 min
17
Chapter 17: The Old Peasant Woman
About 20 min
18
Chapter 18: From Taberg to Huskvarna
About 5 min
19
Chapter 19: The Big Bird Lake
About 25 min
20
Chapter 20: Ulvåsa-Lady
About 10 min
21
Chapter 21: The Homespun Cloth
About 5 min
22
Chapter 22: The Story of Karr and Grayskin
About 45 min
23
Chapter 23: The Wind Witch
About 25 min
24
Chapter 24: The Breaking Up of the Ice
About 5 min
25
Chapter 25: Thumbietot and the Bears
About 20 min
26
Chapter 26: The Flood
About 15 min
27
Chapter 27: Dunfin
About 15 min
28
Chapter 28: Stockholm
About 20 min
29
Chapter 29: Gorgo, the Eagle
About 15 min
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Chapter 30: On Over Gästrikland
About 10 min
31
Chapter 31: A Day in Hälsingland
About 20 min
32
Chapter 32: In Medelpad
About 10 min
33
Chapter 33: A Morning in Ångermanland
About 10 min
34
Chapter 34: Westbottom and Lapland
About 20 min
35
Chapter 35: Osa, the Goose Girl, and Little Mats
About 10 min
36
Chapter 36: With the Laplanders
About 15 min
37
Chapter 37: Homeward Bound!
About 5 min
38
Chapter 38: Legends from Härjedalen
About 15 min
39
Chapter 39: Vermland and Dalsland
About 20 min
40
Chapter 40: The Treasure on the Island
About 10 min
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Chapter 41: The Journey to Vemminghög
About 5 min
42
Chapter 42: Home at Last
About 15 min
43
Chapter 43: The Parting with the Wild Geese
About 5 min