Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to their size and are angry and hungry for revenge. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". These she has ingeniously woven into her story." (From translator Velma Swanston Howard's introduction.) She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. "She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools. 5.5 2017 French Studio 100 3D CGI Adaptation.
When first published, this book was also one of the first to adopt the new spelling mandated by a government resolution on Ap(see Svenska Akademiens Ordlista). Like many leading Swedish intellectuals of her time, Selma Lagerlöf was an advocate of Swedish spelling reform. The two parts are later usually published together, in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but that name may also refer to the first part alone. It was originally published in two books, 19, and was first published in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1907) and The Further Adventures of Nils (1911). The Wonderful Adventures of Nils ( Swedish: Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige
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