Nils Holgersson's Journey with the Geese

Author: Selma Lagerl?f
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book was published in 1907 under the categories of history and natural science. By the time Lagerl?f passed away, it had sold a total of 3.5 million copies, and it has been reprinted every few years since then, making it one of the best-selling works in Swedish literature. To date, it has been translated into over 50 languages and adapted into films and animations. In Sweden, from the king and prime minister to ordinary people, almost everyone has read this book since childhood, growing up under its subtle influence. Moreover, every reader who has read this work feels grateful for it. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, Kenzaburō ōe first expressed his gratitude to The Mysterious Journey of Nils Holgersson for bringing joy to his childhood. The avant-garde writer Ma Yuan discussed the profound influence this book had on his own creativity in Reading the Masters, while many other readers regard it as a testament to their childhood. The Mysterious Journey of Nils Holgersson is the masterpiece of Selma Lagerl?f, the 1909 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature and a Swedish female writer. It tells the story of a boy named Nils who, after being shrunk, rides on a white goose and embarks on an eight-month adventure with a flock of wild geese, interspersed with numerous Swedish folk tales and descriptions of the geographical features of various regions in Sweden. The writing style is humorous and vivid, with rich and fantastical imagination, and the plot is captivating.