168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Inscribed 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:first edition of the best known book by the first woman and first Swedish person to win ꦿthe Nobel Prize for Literature, beating out fellow nominees Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy𒊎, and Mark Twain.

• Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
• Selma Lagerlöf (Swedish).
• [Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Across Sweden] Nils Holgerssons Underbara Resa Genom Sverige.
• Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, (1906); (1907).
•  238, [2]; 486, [2] pages. 
• Black-and-white photographic illustrations.
• Volume 1 with inscription by Lagerlöf to half-title: "Till Elin Arnell / fran / din tillgifna Rusi / Selma" (translation: "To Elin Arnell / from / your affectionate Rusi / Selma"). 
• Text in Swedish.
• Bound in the original green pictorial cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spine, blue and yellow marbled endpapers, housed in custom green clamshell box with pictorial spine label.

"The joy t♋hat she takes in her art links her to the great tale-tellers of history – who thoroughly enjoy their work, and whose pleasure is highly infectuous [sic] and satisfying to those readers fortunate enough to encounter those tales." – Daniel Popp and E. C. Barksdale

Selma Lagerlöf was a vocal suffragette, a scholar who defied her father's efforts to stifle her education, and a writer who bucked the fashionable realism of her early 20th-century literary peers. In her lifetime, Lagerlöf accepted her public image as a "naïveꦍ, kind spinster who told simple stories from her homeland." She was selected for the 1909 Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."

This title is Lagerlöf's most famous work, so beloved that its main character and author once adorned Swedish currency. Conceived simply as a textbook for children about the geography of Sweden, Lagerlöf went beyond the traditional boundaries of the genre to weave in elements of folklore and travelogue. Geography textbooks are not generally noted for their rich fantasy plots, but Nils Holgerssons is delightful: naughty, cruel boy Nils is enchanted by a gnome to be tiny and learns the error of his ways as he is whisked away on the bac♛k of a goose on a cross𒁏-country migratory journey. This copy, warmly inscribed by Lagerlöf, is a beautiful example of the dynamic woman's prize-winning oeuvre.