Nils Holgersson's Journey with the Geese

Author: Ning Zhenzhi
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Elementary School Pinyin Classics · Foreign Classics. The Elementary School Pinyin Classics series includes 6 Chinese classics and 6 foreign classics, totaling 12 books. To facilitate extracurricular reading for elementary school students, the author has selected and adapted the original works, added standard Chinese Pinyin, and included beautiful illustrations. Learning Pinyin, recognizing characters, and reading classics are all highly beneficial for cultivating children's temperament, developing intelligence, enriching their lives, and improving their comprehensive qualities. The Adventures of Nils is one of the foreign classics in this series. The Adventures of Nils is the masterpiece of Selma Lagerl?f, a Swedish female writer and Nobel laureate. Since its publication in 1906, the book has been translated into over 50 languages and has been widely welcomed by readers, especially children, earning its rightful place as a literary classic worldwide. The Adventures of Nils consists of 55 chapters, each containing several short stories. To adapt such a grand work of nearly 500,000 words into a popular reading material for children, besides compression and simplification, there is almost no other way. Of course, the theme of the work cannot be lost, which includes patriotism, suppressing evil and promoting goodness, the pursuit of beauty, and the intimate harmony between humans and nature.