Nils Holgersson is a lazy, mischief-loving fourteen-year-old until he crosses an elf and is shrunk to the elf’s own size. Clinging to the farm gander Morten, he joins the wild geese led by old Akka from Kebnekaise on their spring flight north, seeing Glimminge Castle, the crane dance on Kullaberg, Karlskrona and Öland — and slowly learning kindness along the way.
Written as a geography of Sweden for schoolchildren, it is the best-loved book of the 1909 Nobel laureate. Download the free EPUB.