The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, credited to Selma Lagerlöf, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. Read by Lars Rolander. Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige) is a famous work of fiction by Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1906 and 1907. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools. "She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story." (From translator Velma Swanston Howard's introduction.) (Summary by Lars Rolander and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
• Author credits: Selma Lagerlöf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 17:38:12

Catalogue topics

• Swedish literature
• Nobel Prize winning author
• fiction
• children
• fantasy
• folklore
• legends

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - The Boy — 42:08
2. 02 - Akka from Kebnekaise — 41:17
3. 03 - The wonderful Journey of Nils — 51:12
4. 04 - Glimminge Castle — 34:07
5. 05 - The Great Crane Dance on Kullaberg — 25:33
6. 06 - In Rainy Weather — 16:17
7. 07 - The Stairway with the Three Steps — 10:31
8. 08 - By Ronneby River — 24:20
9. 09 - Karlskrona — 22:11
10. 10 - The Trip to Oeland — 11:12
11. 11 - Oeland's Southern Point — 21:52
12. 12 - The Big Butterfly — 11:14
13. 13 - Little Karl's Island — 31:50
14. 14 - Two Cities — 30:55
15. 15 - The Legend of Smaland — 13:41
16. 16 - The Crows — 44:28
17. 17 - The old Peasant Woman — 26:42
18. 18 - From Taberg to Huskvarna — 10:38
19. 19 - The Big Birdlake — 39:52
20. 20 - Ulvasa-Lady — 14:06
21. 21 - The Homespun Cloth — 10:00
22. 22 - The Story of Karr and Greyskin Part 1 — 23:16
23. 23 - The Story of Karr and Greyskin part 2 — 20:02
24. 24 - The Story of Karr and Greyskin Part 3 - The Big War of the Moths — 29:16

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